Is FIB compression accounted for in their "over 1M" routes claim, or is that on top of the spec?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Lewis" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 7:40:34 PM Subject: Re: Arista 7280QR-C36 Viability > On Dec 1, 2025, at 8:57 AM, 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). 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? If you let it run out of FIB space, those routes that don’t make it into the FIB blackhole. FIB compression works quite well though, especially if you enable it. :) _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YCMPBILFA7RASKAU5RFND62YBUHWBLGO/
