I agree that's a better piece of gear. But now we're at a $20k box as opposed to a $3k box.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Butterworth" <[email protected]> To: "North American Network Operators Group" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2025 9:04:48 AM Subject: Re: Arista 7280QR-C36 Viability On 01/12/2025 13:57:18, "Mike Hammett via NANOG" <[email protected]> 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). They are but the R3's are more suitable being supported and higher scale (more so the 3K versions). > 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? The can have enough ram for RIB but FIB will drop some, with the Flex Route selective FIB population option it'll be at a safe for now 50% ish. >What's the "next best" box for that role? 7280SR3 or 7280SR3K, or CR's if you need all 100G ports brandon _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4XLNBZIWSEK3MCFTHFR27KXOH4YN5VX3/
