To all the people running XMR/MLX's have you had much Cisco exposure? Particularly with the 6500/7600's, i'm a pretty Cisco centric person and have spent most of my life using Cisco equipment and am very comfortable with it, I do however use foundry's for slb's (serverirons) and have found them quite reliable and intuitive(I won't ask where they got their CLI structure ideas from J ), my question is how do you find it compared to the Cisco products(features/support/performance etc)? From what someone told me I gather the XMR/MLX is more of a router than a layer3 switch (like the 6500/7600) and hence the features are really only bound by the software rather than being bound by your linecards capability, the BigIron(RX) is more the comparison to the 6500/7600, is this right?
Essentially what i'm after is just someone who has had good exposure to both vendors and can give me an honest non biased opinion on what they like and dislike about the XMR/MLX's compared to the Cisco offerings. Cheers Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Evans Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 1:30 AM To: Dan Pinkard Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Is there much to recommend an MLX? We have 8 in XMR's in production at this point, some running hundreds of BGP sessions, and our pain has been minimal. There was a pretty bad software bug that caused us to send full tables to peers so we were tripping max-prefixes, but it was addressed. I think we've had 1 line card fail in the past 6 months, so not bad. I would definitely recommend the XMR for its price/performance point. However, be very careful with what you try to do with a SuperX :-). Don't mix SuperX with BGP if you can help it. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dan Pinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time and time again I've gotten anecdotal recommendations that Foundry should only be used for layer 2. I would like to open that up to a wider audience with a perhaps more directed question: What is there about the MLX platform that helps it compare to the available offerings from Juniper/Cisco/etc? Why did you end up with that gear other than just price? With the same options available, would you buy it again? (Please avoid the flamable aspects of that conversation) _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
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