Mx204 alternative

Mon Sep 2 22:27:16 UTC 2019

1 Gig is supported on later release versions 

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> On Sep 2, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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>> On 2/Sep/19 10:28, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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>> What about handling LAG on 1Gb/sec links?  That is a major showstopper
>> if indeed it is missing:
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>> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configuration-statement/speed-gigether-options.html
>> 
>> •            On MX10003 and MX204 routers, rate selectability at PIC
>> level and port level does not support 1-Gbps speed.
>> •            On MX10003 and MX204 routers, the interface name prefix
>> must be xe.
>> •            On MX10003 and MX204 routers, even after configuring
>> 1-Gbps speed, the protocol continues to advertise the bandwidth as
>> 10-Gigabit Ethernet.
>> •            On MX10003 and MX204 routers, Link Aggregation Group
>> (LAG) is supported on 10-Gbps speed only. It is not supported on
>> 1-Gbps speed.
> 
> Well, that's not ideal at all.
> 
> That said, in the Metro, we don't generally support LAG's toward
> customers because getting policing to work reliably on them is
> difficult. So we wouldn't hit this issue, although I can see how
> annoying it would be for networks that prefer to do this.
> 
> Mark.