[AusNOG] Cumulus Linux / Switch Environment

[Luke Iggleden]

Hi Sheng,

Awesome, I've been waiting for a product like this to come along!

Surely it won't be long until someone builds a product that fits 512K!

We might get a couple to play with.


Cheers,

Luke

On 11/08/2014 8:47 am, Sheng Yeo wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> Yes, they make good L3 routers as they can forward at line speed.
>
> We use them at the edge doing BGP but the hardware route table isn't big
> enough to fit all routes learned.
>
> The Trident Plus switches (1 gig and the older 10 gig ones) hold about
> 16 k routes and the Trident 2 holds about 256K (this may be less
> depending on how the final release took advantage of the extended mem
> space).
>
> Thing to watch is Linux will still take the route but then Switchd will
> fail to insert if the Linux table is bigger than the hardware table.
>
> Best to keep an eye on the logs to know when this happens.
>
> Cheers
> Sheng
>
> Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse any errors.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Luke Iggleden" <luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au>
> To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: [AusNOG] Cumulus Linux / Switch Environment
> Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2014 8:30 AM
>
> On 8/08/2014 11:49 am, Matt Perkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   We are getting our firsts Cumulus Linux enabled switches in the next
>> week to start playing with in the lab. Has anyone else had any good/bad
>> experience with them. Interested to know your thoughts. I will do a post
>> when i get some experience with them.
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>>
>
>
> I'd be interested to see how these switches will handle routes. I'm
> guessing that routes will be Limited to the LPM / Hardware tables of the
> physical devices?
>
> Assuming the silicon supports the route entries they would make very
> powerful 'hardware switched' l3 routers running quagga?
>
>
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