On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Pavel Lunin <[email protected]> wrote: > Another approach can be a large VC ring of EX4200s built with VCE (ethernet) > links: > http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/implementation-guides/8010045-en.pdf > > Seems to be a reasonable solution when scale of up to 9 nodes in a single > ring is OK. First EX4200 is known to be more or less stable (in my > experience), second VCCP is actualy ISIS which is way more interesting than > most ethernet scaling technologies rooted in LAN. As of my experience, > Juniper's VC implementation is rather not bad. Moreover they even announced > EX4500 to support virtual chassis some day, but this is too dreamy by now, > and no one knows how good EX4500 will be.
I think the biggest problem with this approach, is the limit of 24K MAC addresses across the entire VC. This is a problem we'll be running into in the not so distant future - I don't know if CCCs are the right (only?) solution to this. Cheers, Bjørn _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
