[ixpmanager] Recommended Devices for an IXP with Sflow Feature

[Ahmed Al-Saruri]

Hello All,

Thank you very much for your contribution and suggestions regarding this.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 8:14 PM Moritz Frenzel <denog at hackathon.de> wrote:

> Hello Ahmed,
>
> you may find this "wishlist" by euro-ix useful in order not to miss
> anything: https://www.euro-ix.net/en/forixps/ixp-wishlist/
>
> Also all IXPs running IXPManager expose the used devices in the IX-F
> format, if you check the switch section you'll find all models in
> operation, see ours for example:
> https://portal.s-ix.de/api/v4/member-export/ixf/1.0
> EURO-IX also consolidates all endpoints they're aware of into the IXPDB
> https://ixpdb.euro-ix.net/en/, maybe you'll find more information there.
>
> Our(Stuttgart-IX) main switch is a Arista 7280-SR-48C6, we're very happy
> with it, especially as it supports L2 and L3 ACLs which allow us to
> implement all MANRS actions as well as BGP Session culling when needed,
> this hardware platform is also present in a few other IXPs in Germany and
> Austria.
>
> Best of luck in finding a new switch.
>
> Moritz
> Stuttgart-IX
>
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:00 PM Ahmed Al-Saruri <ahmed.alsaruri at x3me.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your responses and suggestions.
>>
>> We were previously working with Huawei s6720 series which was working
>> fine with sflow but their new series S6730 is not supporting sflow anymore.
>>
>> We are looking for budget devices if they will have good functionality
>> and support, but we might consider other options as well.
>>
>> I see that the suggestions are around F5, Extreme, Brocade and Dell
>> switches.
>>
>> Could you please let me know if possible how many years have you been
>> using these devices and if there are any discretion or cons when using them?
>>
>> I believe the main points we see in a potential device is high port
>> densities supporting 10G and 100G ports, sflow support, port security and
>> L2 ACL.
>>
>> Also if any has used Nokia devices, their devices support cflowd. Did you
>> work on this and found an easy way to extract the same samples like sflow?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:14 PM Christopher Malayter <
>> mustang at terahertz.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Depending on what you’re trying to do, and what your budget is…if you’re
>>> going the Extreme/Brocade route.  Low budget: MLX/CER Higher Budget:
>>> SLX9540/9740.
>>>
>>> I’d avoid the CES simply due to scaling issues.
>>>
>>> We’ve had fairly decent luck with the Extreme’s, other than the SLX
>>> 9850s.
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Paul Emmons <paul at ninja-ix.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> We use brocades on the past. Mlx,ces add turboiron all supported sflow.
>>>  Also the newer Dell os10 switches work well.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 4:02 AM Ahmed Al-Saruri <ahmed.alsaruri at x3me.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Team,
>>>>
>>>> Finding a good switch for the IXP is becoming a bit hard since some of
>>>> the devices like Nokia do not seem to be supporting sflow features.
>>>>
>>>> My question here is  what type of devices do you use other than Huawei
>>>> and Arista that supports sflow and is a good option for an IXP?
>>>>
>>>> Also if you have some device that does not support sflow, is there some
>>>> work around using other flow protocols to get ASN-to-ASN traffic graphs?
>>>>
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Ahmed Alsaruri
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