Juniper hardware recommendation

Sun May 16 12:56:02 UTC 2021

Looks like its replacement is the 5120 series. The question is does the
5120 have the same limitations and similar chipset?

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM Jason Healy <jhealy at suffieldacademy.org>
wrote:

> To echo Alain's comments earlier, the Juniper QFX 5100 series is stable,
> once you figure out all the shortcomings of the chipset.  We aren't doing
> anything fancy, but have certainly bumped into our share of issues that
> have no workaround because it's a limitation of the physical hardware.
> Since we're talking about counters, see if you can spot the error with IPv6
> accounting in the output from our 5100 below (about 50% of our traffic is
> v6):
>
>     Transit statistics:
>      Input  bytes  :      284315487788005            412457312 bps
>      Output bytes  :       39937401090441             29417528 bps
>      Input  packets:         231391925059                39552 pps
>      Output packets:          88278182551                10809 pps
>      IPv6 transit statistics:
>       Input  bytes  :                   0
>       Output bytes  :                   0
>       Input  packets:                   0
>       Output packets:                   0
>
>
> ;-)
>
> I believe the 5100 just announced EOL (
> https://support.juniper.net/support/eol/product/qfx_series/); I haven't
> had time to look at the replacement models to see if they behave any better.
>
> Jason
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