On 02/09/2019 11:16, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 8/Aug/19 05:33, Brandon Martin wrote:
MX204 is a very nice pizza box router for service providers. I'm not
aware of anything quite like it in terms of having a mature control
plane. I like the JunOS config language better than Cisco-style that
most other folks use.
The MX204 is pretty hard to beat. It fits well as a peering/transit
router, as well as a Metro-E router where you need a 100Gbps ring to
carry 10Gbps customers, as well as downstream cheaper routers that will
do sub-10Gbps quite nicely.
That said, at least for the Metro, I still believe a lighter version of
the MX204, with dense 1Gbps capability, is still needed. Been asking
since 2007.
Mark.
What about handling LAG on 1Gb/sec links? That is a major showstopper
if indeed it is missing:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configuration-statement/speed-gigether-options.html
• On MX10003 and MX204 routers, rate selectability at PIC
level and port level does not support 1-Gbps speed.
• On MX10003 and MX204 routers, the interface name prefix
must be xe.
• On MX10003 and MX204 routers, even after configuring 1-Gbps
speed, the protocol continues to advertise the bandwidth as 10-Gigabit
Ethernet.
• On MX10003 and MX204 routers, Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
is supported on 10-Gbps speed only. It is not supported on 1-Gbps speed.
-Hank
