[j-nsp] EX2200 Series

[Bill Blackford]

> Any features specifically that you're curios about?
Has anyone done/used the VC feature? How stable is it? Does it function in
a similar manner to that of the EX4200's? How do they handle the loss of a
member?

These will be closet stacks, so little need for any L3 functionality.
However, in the event I bring L3 down to the access layer, is the
OSPF implementation usable? (my experience has been on 3200/4200's
primarily). I believe I read something about limitations.




On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Paulhamus, Jon <jpaulhamus at iu17.org> wrote:

> We have well approximately 75 of the 2200's and closer to 250 of the
> 4200's / 4500's either standalone or in VC.     A few bugs along the way
> with earlier code - but now we've stuck with 11.4R5.7 code and all is well.
>  I've mixed the 2200's with mostly Cisco, and 3com / HP and have had no
> issues with compatibility other than a few gotchas with VLAN pruning on the
> Cisco's that we easily accounted for.  For what it's worth, we also use
> SRX's combined with Cisco routers and firewalls for VPN's as well without
> any issues.
>
> Any features specifically that you're curios about?
>
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> From: Doug McIntyre [merlyn at geeks.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 6:47 PM
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] EX2200 Series
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:09:16PM -0700, Bill Blackford wrote:
> > I am interested in hearing any feedback about the EX2200. In particular,
> > anyone who has done a recent enterprise deployment in a converged and in
> > particular, a mixed vendor environment.
>
> I've used the EX2200's, and aside from the "limited" features compared
> to the rest of the EX line, they operate exactly the same, just missing
> a couple things that are mentioned in the datasheets. Although they
> recently (12.x) brought Virtual Chassis to it, I haven't done that yet.
>
> As to mixed vendor, you'd have to state what protocols you are
> expecting in a mixed vendor? They do STP and RSTP just fine. They
> won't do cisco proprietary protocols, such as CDP or VDP. They have
> standards based proprotocols that are equivilent. I've done OSPF and
> BGP (still accounting for all switches have limited BGP route space)
> with no issues.
>
> Overall, I've had much less problems with the Juniper switches (aside
> from some bad releases, especially on the EX4550 line) than my cisco
> switches all around. I have had some wonkiness getting especially old
> cisco software talking, but the problem has always been on the cisco side.
> Usually upgrading the cisco to newer code solved their bugs (ie. LACP).
>
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