DENOG17

After Ben and Pim covering the Mellanox Spectrum Switches in blog posts, we gave it a try and decided to use them as the base for our new colocation plans.

We're running a Mellanox SN2700 setup now in production with Layer2 EVPN. It runs on plain Linux with FRR, bird, switchdev, netplan and some other FOSS components.

I'll go through the difficulties of missing vendor support, the painpoints of an OS to be fitted as a NOS and which documentation was helpful and which not.

But we're also covering the things, why we do it and why we still would choose this again.