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

[Scott Granados]

+1 on the 4200.

Had very good luck with the 4200 series.  Also had good luck with the 4300 but there were some bugs.  In a basic operation mode though they are quite stable.  That being said I was really pleased with the 4200 and you might want to check them out assuming the lower arp limit isn’t an issue.
 

On Aug 6, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Yucong Sun <sunyucong at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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