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

Paul S. contact at winterei.se
Wed Aug 6 09:59:02 EDT 2014


That lower arp limit is precisely why we're looking at the 4300, though.

Which, by the way, does anyone happen to know if the arp limit stays the 
same when the 4200s are put into VC mode -- or do they increase at all?

On 8/6/2014 午後 10:31, Scott Granados wrote:
> +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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