Arista Warrior, 2nd Edition

Preface

The examples used in this book are taken from my own experiences as well as from the experiences of those with or for whom I have had the pleasure of working. Of course, for obvious legal and honorable reasons, the exact details and any information that might reveal the identities of the other parties involved have been changed. Because they’re guilty as hell. Every last one of ‘em.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is not an Arista manual. I will not go into the details of every permutation of every command, nor will I go into painful detail of default timers or counters or priorities or any of that boring stuff. The purpose of this book is to get you up and running with an Arista switch, or even a data center full of them. What’s more, this book aims to explain Arista-specific features in great detail; however, it might not go into such detail on other topics such as explaining VLANs, routers, and how to configure NTP, because I’ve covered those topics at length in Network Warrior. I will go into detail if a topic is being introduced here that wasn’t covered in Network Warrior, such as Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). Where possible, I have concentrated on what makes Arista switches great. In short, if you want to learn about networking, pick up Network Warrior. If you want to know why Arista is stealing market share from all of the other networking equipment vendors (and continues to do so six years after the first edition ...