I did an eval for some folks last Aug on Arista and 2 other vendors, one of the others decided they didn't want to play the 3rd did.

Of the 3 Arista performed better/best. The test plan was shared with all 3 vendors prior to testing and it definitely push all this to and then past their published limits. Arista was the only one in 2 days I didn't break. Use case big fast simple L3 BGP router.

-jim

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:11 AM David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:

Hi all, would love to get any current opinions (on or off list) on the stability of Arista’s BGP implementation these days. Been many years since I last looked into it and wasn’t ready for a change yet. Past many years have been IOS XR on NCS5500 platform and Arista everywhere but the edge. I’ve been really happy with them in the other roles, so am thinking about edge now. I do like and use XR’s RPL, and prefix/as/community/object sets, but we can live without via our own config management if there aren’t easy equivalents. No fancy needs at all, just small web server networks, so just need reliable eBGP and internal OSPF/OSPFv3.

Thanks,

David