Re: BGP topological vs centralized route reflector

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Hi,

    Unlucky as always, we had issues with the chassis of a MX104 about 
every years since we installed.

    I thinking the vibration from the train track above our location 
might be having an effect on connectors in those chassis, but we never 
got a "autopsy" report back from JNP about the chassis we swapped.

    Oddly luck, we have ~40 VM servers in the rack beside it with a mix 
of mechanical and SSDs drive with 0 issues for the same time span.

    So mileage may vary.

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Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
PubNIX Inc.
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On 2/14/19 12:15 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On 13/Feb/19 20:00, Saku Ytti wrote:
>
> > Main advantage of out-of-path is that you decouple FIB and RIB scaling
> > requirements and feature requirements. Your backbone device does not
> > need to be qualified for large RIB or BGP at all. And when you do need
> > more RIB scaling, you can upgrade out-of-path without any network
> > interruption.
> We've ran this for years (Cisco CSR1000v, since 2014), and our biggest
> problem has been server hardware failure. Failing fans, sensitivity to
> higher temperatures that routers can weather better... that sort of thing.
>
> Other than that, run this as a VM in your favourite hypervisor and
> you're good to go. Can't recommend it enough.
>
> Mark.