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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by xvf22 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:31PM (#18189105)
Don't they run on commodity Broadcom ASICs?
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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by mcpherrinm on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:49AM (#18191028)
Modern network ASICs are highly-programmable devices. So you can implement a lot of magic on the same hardware as competitors.

It's really not one way or the other, but the software and hardware working together that's important.

[disclaimer: I am a former Arista employee. I did some of the "light" Fedora modifications.]

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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by SEJeff on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:31AM (#18193347)
Did I get it wrong? One thing we found interesting is that we could run unmodified software directly on the switches so long as we built it for the AMD Athlons running on them.
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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by cgh on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:05PM (#18189346)
Yes but then again, so do some Cisco switches nowadays. Arista's management team is former Cisco as well. There is a tangled legal history between the two companies, with Cisco claiming various patent infringements. So far as I know, none of the claims are hardware-related.
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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by xvf22 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:04PM (#18190015)
Previous poster claimed that all of the magic was hardware but I've always been told that it was in the software. HPE now seems to have some agreement with Arista.
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