On 11/May/16 09:48, Phil Mayers wrote: > > The Cat6k including 6840 can certainly do a fair number of MPLS > features, we use their older brother (6880, sup2T) and for a little > while longer predecessor (sup720) as MPLS PE in L3VPN (inc. 6vPE), > MVPN and some small amount of L2VPN (mainly EoMPLS) > > IIUC the layer2 and MVPN stuff is lagging the state of the art quite a > bit on that software train, which might be an issue for you. > > The per-port cost will be relatively high compared to a merchant > silicon-based device, but the features tend to be a bit better. Port > density is also kind of low on the cat6k sadly. > > They also run plain old IOS, with it's paucity of modern comforts > (like any form of API, or transactional commits, etc.). Slightly weedy > CPU, especially if you use Netflow on them (do not get me started...)
Egress policing and other advanced QoS features also used to be a big problem on this platform and its cousins, but I believe this has since been fixed for the SUP-2T as well as the current generation boxes in this portfolio. Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
