MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup

Sun Aug 27 02:52:55 UTC 2023

I sincerely doubt there is much demand for *new* 40G these days.

Look at the population of 40G members on major IXes.

People have either one 10G, 2 x 10G, or 100G.

40G was a dead-end 9 years ago and much so more now.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 9:38 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> some of these port capabilities are weird to me.  like on the
> ACX7100-48L you can do 4x100 or 8x50, but ONLY one 40g ?!
>
> me at 7100> show chassis pic pic-slot 0 fpc-slot 0 | find 400
>    48     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    49     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    50     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    51     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    52     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    53     0       1x400G 1x100G 1x40G 4x100G 2x100G 8x50G 2x50G 4x25G
> 4x10G 3x100G
>    54     NA      1x10G
>
>
>
>
> On 8/23/2023 11:29 AM, tim at pelican.org wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 23 August, 2023 16:33, "Mark Tinka" <mark at tinka.africa>
> said:
> >
> > [faceplate oversubscription]
> >
> >> On the new ACX line, yes.
> > Not Trio, and different PLM :)
> >
> >> We don't mess around with any other MX products, so not sure (although
> >> we are still yet to deploy the MPC10E's and the MX304).
> > MX304 (well, strictly LMIC16) has the same restriction, and a need for
> another entry in the magic port checker (
> https://apps.juniper.net/home/port-checker/index.html) for restrictions
> beyond "SUM(port-speeds) <= 1.6T".
> >
> > They make sense once you've looked at the block diagram for the thing
> and followed the lines, but things like "4x10G breakout can only go in
> odd-numbered ports, and you have to leave the corresponding next-lowest
> even-numbered port empty" are not instantly obvious.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim.
> >
> >
> --
> -Aaron
>
>
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