Thanks Mark. That's for a LAG, right? Not ECMP traffic.
Luis On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2/Jun/15 20:54, Luis Balbinot wrote: >> Hi. >> >> If I have two EX4550s acting as P routers and they are connected by a >> LAG how will the MPLS traffic be load balanced? How deep will the >> hashing algorithm look into the packets? >> >> Juniper says these EXs cannot do MPLS and ECMP. Is this still true? > > We used the EX4550's as core switches back in 2012 - 2014, before > migrating to another platform. > > They are able to hash Layer 2 traffic that is primarily MPLS-based. This > was a major requirement for us because I've had bad experience with the > EX4200 acting as a core switch where Ethernet payload is MPLS traffic. > > I've never ran MPLS on any EX box, but the EX4550 can certainly load > balance Ethernet traffic if the payload is MPLS. It will look deep > enough and hash against the payload that MPLS is carrying. > > Just don't try this on the EX4200. The EX4200 only supports hashing > against IP and Ethernet traffic. Not sure what the newer EX switches can do. > > Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
