Mx204 alternative

Mon Sep 2 22:36:37 UTC 2019

On the MX204 that is..

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> On Sep 2, 2019, at 3:27 PM, Kenneth McRae via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> 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:
>>> 
>>> 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.
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