Crazy workaround but I didn't spend 500k on a box to do a hack job that a 3k box does perfectly
:) > You know, just as this thread popped up on this list, we were dealing with a > multicast related issue... On an MX if you statically map a unicast IP address > to a multicast mac address, you have to specify a single l2 interface to forward > that traffic out of. It essentially defeats the whole purpose of creating the > mapping in the first place. > > So I thought, what if we connect to ports on the same box together? This > worked. Essentially you create a logical interface on one end of the cable and > you move your layer 3 config to it for that particular VLAN, then the other end > of the cable is just a trunk port. > > > This might resolve your issue. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Chris Evans <[email protected]> > To: Derick Winkworth <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 11:45:58 AM > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] 10.3 on MX960 with MPC only? > > > Agreed if they offering the mx as an Ethernet switch this should be > supported. Nag your account team. I had them put in an enhancement request > but who knows if they are listening. > >> "Its not supported" is the wrong phrase. "Its broken" is more appropriate. >>Whatever design choices that were made in the past that led to this, as you >>said, "mind-blowing" caveat, Juniper needs to go backwards and fix it. >> >> On Tue Aug 31st, 2010 8:01 AM CDT Chris Evans wrote: >> >>>Try configuring an irb, igmp, igmp-snooping and a trunk port on 10.x code. >>>It will tell you its not supported. It's never been supported per JTAC. >>>Also as per jtacs comment they put that statement in newer code as they >>>didn't know it wasnt supported before. I asked jtac to update the >>>documentation. >>> > Is this in documentation somewhere? I just did a quick pass through the >>>IGMP >>>> snooping docs and I did not see it stated anywhere in there... maybe I >>>missed >>>> it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Derick Winkworth <[email protected]> >>>> To: Chris Evans <[email protected]>; Gavin Tweedie <[email protected] > >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 7:13:37 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] 10.3 on MX960 with MPC only? >>>> >>>> ########### >>>> I'm not even going to mention that >>>> >>>> IGMP-Snooping isn't support on trunk interfaces which blows my mind. >>>> ############ >>>> >>>> >>>> wow! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
