On Monday, April 15, 2013 06:20:15 PM Jeff Aitken wrote: > Well, it fails my "must run IOS-XR or JUNOS" requirement, > for starters. ;-) And seriously, who wants to implement > routing policy in IOS?! Bletch.
:-), in this particular case, I learned to put that aside. But that's exactly my point - if an all-Juniper network wants to run an all-Juniper network including route reflectors, and not feel like they're having their arms twisted, Juniper are really betting the farm that ISP's love for Junos transcends common sense; a notion I feel will soon run its course. It certainly has for me. For route reflection, I'm all about the hardware. I've ran route reflectors on Junos, IOS and IOS XE. IOS language does require extra care given its poorer checks & balances than IOS XR or Junos, but for us, that does not outweigh the benefits provided by having the right hardware and cost for the right job. > What I want is something based on a generic compute > platform, ala JUNOSphere/VIRL. That lets me scale the > control plane as big as I need to, avoids wasting money > on purpose-built hardware optimized for forwarding, and > comes with the added bonus of using the same OS & policy > language that's already widely deployed in my network, > so at least I don't get any NEW interop issues. The > downside is that neither vendor sells such a thing right > now, and so we're stuck arguing about which square peg > fits best into the round hole. ("small" ASR9k and MX > here, FWIW) You're preaching to the choir. Then again, I wouldn't suggest an ASR9001 for this task either. 8GB is not bad, but you can get 16GB on the ASR1001. Also, the ASR9001 is a PPC-based platform (unlike the Intel Xeon's on the ASR9006/9010), while the ASR1001 is an Intel, if that makes any difference to you. > Oh and I also want a two-vendor solution so that I'm > (hopefully) not completely screwed the next time one of > them discovers a new attribute- handling bug. Cisco says ASR1000 line. What does Juniper say? I'm all for choice. Sadly, I'm not the vendors :-(. Mark.
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