More product suggestions: small/cheap IS-IS or VXLAN devices?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’m asking for product suggestions yet again:

We’re wondering if anything small & cheap (think CPE-grade) exists that supports either IS-IS or VXLAN?

If IS-IS, total route count it would have to carry would be small, probably in the ~500 range.

If VXLAN, it needs to interoperate with Arista.

If both… yay!

When I say CPE-grade, I mean under C$1k (~US$800, ~€700), and can be emplaced at a customer site without any unusual infrastructure (e.g. no -48VDC power, or DIN rail mounting, non-business-office-typical).

Thanks in advance, everyone.

-Adam

Adam Thompson
Consultant, Infrastructure Services
MERLIN
100 - 135 Innovation Drive
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8
(204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only)
athompson@merlin.mb.ca
www.merlin.mb.ca

Two that immediately come to mind are:

Hard to beat the price point on either.

Two that immediately come to mind are:

- If you don't need anything dynamic, you can run VXLAN on any Linux box. So just a random server would work.
VXLAN & Linux

IS-IS support in Quagga and FRR is still spotty.

I will be testing FRR 8.1 (on FreeBSD) soon to see if previous issues have since been resolved.

- RouterOS v7 added VXLAN, so now you can do that in a MikroTik box, or in a Cloud-Hosted Router (their VM).
VXLAN - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation

Hard to beat the price point on either.

AFAIK, Mikrotik do not support IS-IS.

Mark.

You can get CSCO ISR, JNPR SRX and Huawei AR in that range.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’m asking for product suggestions yet again:

We’re wondering if anything small & cheap (think CPE-grade) exists that supports either IS-IS or VXLAN?

If IS-IS, total route count it would have to carry would be small, probably in the ~500 range.

If VXLAN, it needs to interoperate with Arista.

If both… yay!

Hi Adam,

A very late answer on that topic. You could look at VyOS devices compatible, VXLAN is working on the 1.4 rolling release. No idea about the timeline for this version to become the main train.

We’ve shared an article on our lab tests of VyOS/Arista/Cumulus VX interop in a EVPN VXLAN bgp/bgp fabric, it could help you in your research : https://wiki.nesevo.com/index.php/VyosAristaCVX-VXLAN-lab

When I say CPE-grade, I mean under C$1k (~US$800, ~€700), and can be emplaced at a customer site without any unusual infrastructure (e.g. no -48VDC power, or DIN rail mounting, non-business-office-typical).

You should find something which fits your needs here : https://vyos.io/hcl/?vendor=edgecore-networks&vendor=lanner-electronics-inc&vendor=dell&vendor=aaeon

BR,

Pierre

Probably not an option for us, but thank you – I wasn’t aware VyOS included VXLAN.

Merci,

-Adam

Adam Thompson
Consultant, Infrastructure Services
MERLIN
100 - 135 Innovation Drive
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8
(204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only)
athompson@merlin.mb.ca
www.merlin.mb.ca