On 2/9/26 12:10, Mike Hammett via NANOG wrote:
I'm looking for: • Has at least 6x 100G ports • Has a smattering of 10G/25G ports • Has meaningful packet buffers • Routes in hardware at least 2m routes combined of IPv4 and IPv6, more is better • Has reasonably low power usage, I don't need 1 kw going to a router • Is cost-effective • Used is fine
An Arista 7280SR3AK-48YC8 has the port selection you want along with FIB scale. IDK exactly what you mean by meaningful packet buffers, but it's not a dedicated small-buffer edge box. It should run about 300W. The older 7280SR2K-48C6 also has the port selection and FIB scale you want and can be found used at a price that may be more budget-friendly but is near or just past end-of-support. The non-K versions will do 2M with (what seems like) realistic FIB compression at DFZ-scale but are limited to more like 1M in hardware which may not be what you're looking for. Arista claims 4M+ routes on the K versions with that same FIB compression and IIRC 2M or so in hardware depending on partitioning. -- Brandon Martin