[AusNOG] Cumulus Linux / Switch Environment

[Matt Perkins]

We are doing mostly L2 stuff initially. They do appear they should 
contain enough memory on the switch to do most interior networks with 
fairly little effort. Perhaps even IX's should have not to much of a 
problem with something like these.

Matt.



On 11/08/2014 8:29 am, Luke Iggleden wrote:
> 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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