Still… All of my points are valid. - Brian
> On May 6, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Joe Horton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian, > > I'm not sure who you team is, but the other guys are correct. You can > provision the addition ports using port mode. > Just enabling the 100G ports does not disable the use of the additional 40G. > Been there done that, fully supported. > If you've got something specific from your team or JTAC otherwise, and don't > feel right sharing it on the forum, feel free to reach out directly. > > Joe > > > On 5/6/20, 1:45 PM, "juniper-nsp on behalf of Brian Johnson" > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > [External Email. Be cautious of content] > > > Several points. > > 1. Configuration examples explaining how something is configured are not > supposed to imply that this is how you should configure it or even that the > exact configuration is valid. The example configuration could allow for > over-subscription if port 5 were added at 100G. > > 2. The MPC7 card can be RTU licensed to 50% and 75% of the ports. Not > following licensing restrictions on port usage will void support. > > 3. Junos will let you configure all kinds of things that will either not > work or break later. It’s a feature. ;) > > 4. Be sure you fully understand what you are doing before implementing it > and checking with Juniper to be sure it is a supported configuration is not a > bad idea when there is a cloudy understanding of the features. I work with > customers all of the time on the Juniper MX product line and this card is > still very misunderstood (even by me occasionally). > > My advice would be to validate what you are doing with JTAC before > implementing In production. > > - Brian > >> On May 6, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Tobias Heister <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 06.05.2020 18:24, Brian Johnson wrote: >>> A wise man once told me… “Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean >>> you should”. More specific, “Just because you can do it in the Junos >>> config, doesn’t mean it’s supported.” Junipers licensing “honor system” >>> required honorable intentions. ;) >> >> I would say it is supported. Even the documentation has an example where one >> port of the group is 100GE and two others are 10GE: >> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/rate-selectability-configuring.html#id-configuring-rate-selectability-at-port-level >> >> Also with MPC7 its not like its honor based to only use 240G per PFE ... its >> a hard limit ;) >> >> If you run in PIC Mode with 100GE set, than in deed the other ports are >> disabled: >> "For example, if you choose to configure PIC 0 at 100-Gbps speed, only ports >> 2 and 5 of PIC 0 operate at 100-Gbps speed, while the other ports of the PIC >> are disabled." >> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/rate-selectability-configuring.html#id-configuring-rate-selectability-on-mpc7e-multi-rate-to-enable-different-port-speeds >> >> I mean what else should it do, there are only two 100GE Ports per PFE anyway >> ;) >> >> -- >> Kind Regards >> Tobias Heister >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!UcKakRO5p3-uKQPwDTlCL8Nb20WMoMb5O4S2qhF853FKOIdf_Ypfj7LNl-UZ_HqQ$ >> >> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!UcKakRO5p3-uKQPwDTlCL8Nb20WMoMb5O4S2qhF853FKOIdf_Ypfj7LNl-UZ_HqQ$> > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!UcKakRO5p3-uKQPwDTlCL8Nb20WMoMb5O4S2qhF853FKOIdf_Ypfj7LNl-UZ_HqQ$ > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!UcKakRO5p3-uKQPwDTlCL8Nb20WMoMb5O4S2qhF853FKOIdf_Ypfj7LNl-UZ_HqQ$> > > > Juniper Business Use Only _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
