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Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:16:43 -0400
On another note, the potential issue we might run into is pressure on control plane memory on the MX204 for us that run BGP Add-Paths. You can always upgrade the RE on an MX240/480/960, but the MX204 is fixed (and last time I checked, fiddling with Juniper RE memory was generally frowned upon).
In my experience and testing with them, you have a decent bit of headroom past the published RIB/FIB limits before they'll fall over. On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 11:35 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
On 8/23/23 17:14, Matt Erculiani wrote:Does Fusion not make sense in this case? I've not had a ton of experience with it, but it does well to add a crazy port count to an otherwise very port limited device.In small edge PoP's, we attach an Arista 1U switch with tons of 1/10Gbps ports to an MX204 via 802.1Q. Works a treat. I've never been convinced by vendor-specific satellite systems :-). On another note, the potential issue we might run into is pressure on control plane memory on the MX204 for us that run BGP Add-Paths. You can always upgrade the RE on an MX240/480/960, but the MX204 is fixed (and last time I checked, fiddling with Juniper RE memory was generally frowned upon). Luckily, the MX10003 ships with 64GB of RAM, since it is now EoL. The MX304 ships with 128GB of RAM, so anybody running Add-Paths on that box won't have an issue there. Mark.
Current thread:
- MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Pascal Masha (Aug 21)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Ryan Hamel (Aug 21)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 21)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Chris (Aug 22)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Pascal Masha (Aug 22)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 22)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Tom Beecher (Aug 23)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Matt Erculiani (Aug 23)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Tom Beecher (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Aaron1 (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Tom Beecher (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 25)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Pascal Masha (Aug 22)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Ryan Hamel (Aug 21)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 23)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup tim () pelican org (Aug 23)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Aaron Gould (Aug 23)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Andrey Kostin (Aug 24)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Eric Kuhnke (Aug 26)
- Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup Mark Tinka (Aug 26)