[j-nsp] MX304 - Edge Router

[Tom Beecher]

>
> Did I mention Arista is not spending valuable engineer time on all this
> license shit, but on actually making great products?
>

Oh they aren't?

https://www.arista.com/en/support/product-documentation/eos-feature-licensing

Arista will almost certainly move towards a licensing model similar to
other vendors at some point once their growth curve slows and they need to
start squeezing more revenue out of what they are selling.



On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:36 AM Gert Doering via juniper-nsp <
juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:50:33PM +0000, Richard McGovern via juniper-nsp
> wrote:
> > The introduction of newer (well now like 2 years old) Flex licensing
> > all newly purchased MX (which would include ALL MX304s) support
> > only L2 in the base (free) license. For any L3 (even static) you
> > require some additional level of license.
>
> There goes another vendor...
>
> Now, if the base price would have been *lowered* by the amount the
> L3 features of a *MX router* cost extra now, this might have been an
> option... but for my understanding, the base MX304 is already insanely
> pricey, and then add licenses on top...  nah, taking our money elsewhere.
>
> Did I mention Arista is not spending valuable engineer time on all this
> license shit, but on actually making great products?
>
> gert
> --
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> gert at greenie.muc.de
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