[j-nsp] Viability of EX4300 in a primarily l3 environment?

[Yucong Sun]

I used ex4200 to do exactly what you did before.  ex4200 releases is pretty
rock solid, feature extensive, although with lower arp entry limits.

Given the price difference maybe you can connect each l2 domain to its own
ex4200 and have them do ospf routing among selves, which maybe give you
better failure tolerances compare to a single core.


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha <
giuliano at wztech.com.br> wrote:

> we are using ex4300 with the last release available
>
> the setup is pretty simple using virtual chassis, lag, L3 and poe
>
> it works pretty fine and we do not have any serious problems
>
> sometimes the poe controller goes down but we have a case oppened in jtac
> to try solve it
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 06/08/2014, at 07:15, Sebastian Wiesinger <juniper-nsp at ml.karotte.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > * Paul S. <contact at winterei.se> [2014-08-02 05:18]:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> We're considering the EX4300 to run routing (l3) for a few
> >> hypervisors of ours that are connected via l2.
> >>
> >> Primarily interested due to the rather massive arp limit (64, 000)
> >> on the switch, but we've been told (and searched for ourselves to
> >> find out) that the 4300 platform has been plagued by random issues
> >> since launch.
> >
> > I don't have hands-on experience but I looked at the EX4300 platform
> > for a new deployment. If you look at the current release notes:
> >
> >
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/information-products/topic-collections/ex-qfx-series/release-notes/ex-qfx-series-junos-release-notes-13.2X51-D25.pdf
> >
> > There are a lot of (serious) bugs still getting fixed so I'm not sure
> > how mature this platform is. One big reason for that is probably
> > because EX4300 uses other chips than the rest of the 4xxx series
> > (Broadcom).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
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