The OS supports it, but I wonder if that command is supported on that hardware or if there are other requirements to make that a go.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[email protected]> To: "Mike Hammett via NANOG" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2025 9:04:18 AM Subject: Re: Arista 7280QR-C36 Viability On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, Mike Hammett via NANOG wrote: > At the risk of the Streisand effect, what am I missing about the Arista > 7280QR-C36? It looks like a great router for small ISPs (great price, > large packet buffers, good port selection, meaningful hardware routes). > That said, it looks to be right on the border of DFZ viability. It > supports "over 1M" routes, but I currently have about 1,036,824 in my > route table. How much over is "over"? What happens in EOS when it goes > over? Arista has FIB compression so depending on what your RIB looks like it might work out fine. Lots of "it depends". https://www.arista.com/en/um-eos/eos-ipv4 look for: "ip hardware fib optimize" -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7X4BMVZJVPATCZOMZ7BEHEFXLFJE2CWN/
