[AusNOG] Router on a stick for a production environment

[Matt Ayre]

The smaller Brocade routers (CER) seem to have lots of caveats on virtual
interfaces.. isnt it really just a very smart switch after all =p

Pretty sure on 9K/MX you'd be hard pressed to find any, 1K less so but I'd
still be suprised to find such severe showstoppers..
 On 30/04/2015 1:25 AM, "Paul Wilkins" <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It depends. If you look over the as1k config guide, there's caveats for
> qos. But it's about more than qos. It's about feature parity (which varies
> by platform/code release). Better to have the extra interface than discover
> you need to recable your production environment.
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
> On 29 April 2015 at 22:25, Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Which platform specifically are you talking about? I know for sure the
>> Juniper MXs and Cisco ASR1Ks can do shaping and policing on IFLs /
>> Sub-interfaces just fine.
>>
>> - Tim
>>
>> On 29 Apr 2015, at 7:56 pm, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Don't do it. There are many configuration items (eg. policing/shaping)
>> which will not work with virtual interfaces.
>>
>> Paul Wilkins
>>
>> On 29 April 2015 at 09:44, James Mcintosh <james.mcintosh at rocketmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Noggers,
>>>
>>> Are any of you out there running "router on a stick" in your production
>>> environments?
>>>
>>> Traditionally this was only set up in lab/test environments but given
>>> how expensive 10Gbps+ adapters are from some vendors, and that additional
>>> adapter capability often forces you up to their next most expensive router
>>> models is there any reason not to run it in production?
>>>
>>> Most ISP's already run hundreds or even thousands of sub-interfaces per
>>> physical interface so is there any tangible downside to to just using a
>>> single physical interface for all the in/out connectivity to your router?
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
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