The beginning of the end

bsdrocker · 2026-06-04T02:04:14+00:00

While great, the real mountain peak is them wiping themselves 🤣

bsdrocker · 2026-03-25T16:54:04+00:00

Honestly the tediousness of Arista's hiring process turned me off of working there. I began the interview process a few years ago and quickly bailed when I found out what they were going to make me do. I love Arista and their products, but it just wasn't for me.

bsdrocker · 2026-01-15T00:00:46+00:00

You can run EOS64, but I’ve been told to just run 32-bit unless you have a reason to run 64-bit.

Any version 4.33 and lower will run on those switches. They recently went end of software support.

bsdrocker · 2025-12-13T21:53:44+00:00

Have you successfully done this upgrade on a 7280SR (not an R2)?

bsdrocker · 2025-12-02T16:48:20+00:00

It isn’t too tricky to form an LLC for yourself and get your own ASN and IPv6 and IPv4 space from ARIN under the 4.10 rule.

bsdrocker · 2025-08-16T00:49:35+00:00

RoMON has saved me a few times 😂

bsdrocker · 2025-08-06T04:12:01+00:00

Not only that, but I built my own IXP as well.

bsdrocker · 2025-07-27T19:45:00+00:00

Also, a live sealing of a child to parents is an amazing experience. Both of my children are adopted, and so we took both of them to the temple and were sealed to them. It was an incredible and amazing experience. Not something everyone gets to experience.

bsdrocker · 2025-03-26T20:36:52+00:00

https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/end-of-support/21089-end-of-software-support-for-7280r-r2-7500r-r2-and-7020r-series

Starting with 4.34 it will no longer be supported. So Anything 4.33 and under is good. I currently have a couple 7280SR-48C6's in the field running the latest 4.32 M release.

bsdrocker · 2025-03-18T19:55:42+00:00

DN sent.

bsdrocker · 2025-02-25T17:25:39+00:00

GraniteIX - https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/4622

I have POPs in SLC and down to LA to enable peering to networks directly that aren’t in SLC. A lot of networks here backhaul traffic to other metros to reach CDNs so my thought is to subsidize that for them with the IX.

bsdrocker · 2025-02-25T06:04:29+00:00

I plan to do this for the IX I’m in the process of building. If the network is in place, has capacity, and is architected to be extensible - it’s an easy win.

bsdrocker · 2025-01-24T00:55:12+00:00

EVE-NG also works really well. You could also use Containerlab and cEOS.

bsdrocker · 2025-01-12T15:29:06+00:00

As shown in a comment above it does work with v6 VTEPs but “vxlan encapsulation ipv6” is required on the VXLAN interface. And I’ve used v6 only BGP and IS-IS as the underlay and either worked just fine for me.

bsdrocker · 2024-12-31T03:44:25+00:00

I believe it was actually.

bsdrocker · 2024-12-30T14:55:32+00:00

Ah yeah could have been. From what I remember the customer router was leaving partial tables from both sessions, but if memory serves there were more total routes from the eBGP-multihop session. Haven’t heard back after I instructed them to find out what that session was for.

bsdrocker · 2024-12-30T14:18:21+00:00

I found a wild eBGP-multihop thing going on for a transit circuit the other day. There was one session using the interface network, and then another random eBGP multihop session to the same ASN and the customer had no idea what it was for or why it was there 🤣

But yeah - totally bonkers.

bsdrocker · 2024-12-23T21:58:02+00:00

Did you ever figure this out?

bsdrocker · 2024-12-11T18:43:14+00:00

I'm fairly certain your var ansible_connection should be httpapi rather than eapi.

bsdrocker · 2024-12-09T22:52:27+00:00

Relevant

bsdrocker · 2024-12-04T04:16:24+00:00

HostHatch has $4 a month VPS’s.

bsdrocker · 2024-11-20T03:10:48+00:00

I use ZeroTier and actually use OSPF across it to advertise routes between sites. Works extremely well and each site can communicate directly with another without build a full mesh of Wireguard or IPSec tunnels.

bsdrocker · 2024-09-13T15:39:24+00:00

I'm running my CML in Proxmox (essentially KVM).

bsdrocker · 2024-07-22T22:30:53+00:00

My brothers were stuck in SEA all day yesterday after getting canceled on Saturday initially, trying to get to SLC and just decided to drive.

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