Hi all,
We’re an arista shop (primarily 7050qx-32s, 7050tx, and 7060cx right now) and wanted to get some input on recommendations for “real routers” that can better handle full internet tables. As it is right now we do some creative import filtering to import and inject a handful of routes we care about due to limited fib space and otherwise just use a default received from our carriers, with any particular transit carrier being the “primary” at a given time and using pingcheck to influence that decision.
We’d like to move towards consuming full tables (or at the very least, customer routes) from each of our ISPs - would be grateful for any pointers or recommendations in arista models or family of devices that would be good core/peering routers, especially other than the latest generation. We’d be landing 10g optics from the carriers currently and peering to the downstream switches at 40G or 100G. (frequently we are in the used equipment space for our acquisitions so previous generation or two or three tends to land us in a pretty good spot).
thanks in advance for any advice you can provide!
Alex