interesting troubleshooting

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Sat Mar 21 07:53:07 UTC 2020


Hey Matthew,

> There are *several* caveats to doing dynamic monitoring and remapping of
> flows; one of the biggest challenges is that it puts extra demands on the
> line cards tracking the flows, especially as the number of flows rises to
> large values.  I recommend reading
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/load-balancing-aggregated-ethernet-interfaces.html#id-understanding-aggregated-ethernet-load-balancing
> before configuring it.

You are confusing two features. Stateful and adaptive. I was proposing
adaptive, which just remaps the table, which is free, it is not flow
aware. Amount of flow results is very small bound number, amount of
states is very large unbound number.

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