[j-nsp] Setting IGP metrics in BGP import policies

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Foehl
I'm looking for an equivalent of 'then metric igp' that would actually work in a BGP import policy, specifically such that the resulting MEDs would be redistributed to iBGP neighbors. 'path-selection med-plus-igp' seems to be purely local, and 'then metric igp' is explicitly documented as

[j-nsp] KRT queue stalls fixed in 11.4R8?

2013-06-24 Thread Rob Foehl
According to the release notes for 11.4R8, the KRT queue stall issue (PR836197) has been marked as resolved. Has anyone had a chance to confirm this on a suitably session-heavy MX? -Rob ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net

[j-nsp] Matching specific OSPF routes in aggregate policy

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Foehl
Hey folks, Another OSPF issue for the day: I have a somewhat specific need to match a route from a particular OSPF speaker in an aggregate policy, and I'm not having much luck coming up with a straightforward way to do so. The route in question is injected via a type 5 LSA from a (dumb)

Re: [j-nsp] Matching specific OSPF routes in aggregate policy

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Phil Fagan wrote: Is your aggregate policy already on the MX and is its purpose to export into BGP from OSPF? That's the idea... There are disparate contributing routes, and they tend to come and go on a fairly regular basis. Generating like aggregates elsewhere and

Re: [j-nsp] Matching specific OSPF routes in aggregate policy

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Phil Fagan wrote: could you use BGP multi-hop and simply peer directly to the MX bypassing the need to redist routes in though your OSPF core? That's basically what I'm considering from the perspective of readvertising into BGP on the ABR... The source is going to be

[j-nsp] RSVP path messages and loopback firewall filters

2014-04-21 Thread Rob Foehl
A quick question: how are folks handling RSVP path messages in loopback firewall filters, particularly on MX? prefix-lists covering all RSVP speakers? Explicit IP options match? Ignoring them entirely and hoping the policer on a default accept term won't step on them too hard? ;) Thanks,

Re: [j-nsp] MX80 Sampling - High CPU

2015-01-15 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Mark Tees wrote: For me on an MX80 running 11.4R13 with samlping that 10 minute equates to: - around 3mins of rpd + sampling taking turns to smash the routing engine CPU whilst seeming allowing other things to still be scheduled in (phew). - another 7mins of sampling

[j-nsp] Commit script portability between ELS and non-ELS platforms

2016-06-07 Thread Rob Foehl
Does anyone have any clever methods for probing Enhanced Layer 2 Software support from a commit script on QFX/EX in order to generate changes appropriate to the platform? Specifically looking for something beyond checking hardware and version numbers, or for pieces of config hierarchy that

Re: [j-nsp] Fate sharing between BGP and RSVP

2016-09-13 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Chuck Anderson wrote: Could you just use a strict MPLS path with an ERO? Hmm, doesn't look like it... I just tried configuring an explicit path LSP to nowhere on a lab box, and it didn't install anything into the routing table without the LSP up. Either way, a strict

Re: [j-nsp] Fate sharing between BGP and RSVP

2016-09-13 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Chuck Anderson wrote: I guess I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish then. Ttaffic engineering specific routes is exactly what RSVP is used for. The MPLS path should be torn down if there is no available RSVP-capable route. Did you try just not configuring

[j-nsp] Fate sharing between BGP and RSVP

2016-09-13 Thread Rob Foehl
Assuming a typical IBGP session built between loopbacks, is there any relatively clean way to tie that session state to RSVP-signaled LSPs between the same pair of routers? I'm trying to work around a case where the IGP knows about another path between the two that doesn't carry any MPLS

Re: [j-nsp] Commit script portability between ELS and non-ELS platforms

2016-09-13 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Phil Mayers wrote: On 07/06/16 21:51, Rob Foehl wrote: Does anyone have any clever methods for probing Enhanced Layer 2 Software support from a commit script on QFX/EX in order to generate changes appropriate to the platform? Specifically looking for something beyond

[j-nsp] PR1097749 and default-address-selection

2016-11-03 Thread Rob Foehl
For the Juniper engineering folks on the list: PR1097749 was opened in June 2015 concerning a default-address-selection regression in 12.1 and later releases, which was eventually fixed on SRX, but we're still running into it on EX in certain circumstances. The PR remains non-public, and

Re: [j-nsp] Ex8208 TRAP

2018-05-21 Thread Rob Foehl
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Chris Kawchuk wrote: Your dates are all over the place May 19, then Jun 14, then back to May 19th... That's what happens when a card boots, before it figures out the current time... Why the RE accepts logs like this at face value is another question, but this

Re: [j-nsp] Mixing v4/v6 neighbors in BGP groups

2018-06-29 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Mark Tinka wrote: I prefer not to find out whether walking on hot coal will kill all feeling in my feet, or just numb them for 2hrs :-). So... Is that a vote for or against, and which one? ;) On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Job Snijders wrote: For the purpose of inter-domain

Re: [j-nsp] Router for full routes

2018-06-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Mark Tinka wrote: At this stage, I'd say the cheapest MX router you should go for that is decent is the MX204. Any thoughts on MX204s replacing ancient MX240s, assuming one can make the interface mix work? I'm looking at the replacement option vs. in-place upgrades of

[j-nsp] Mixing v4/v6 in other places (was Re: Mixing v4/v6 neighbors in BGP groups)

2018-08-15 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Rob Foehl wrote: I may have been insufficiently specific... I'm referring to: group example { neighbor 192.0.2.0; neighbor 2001:db8::; } vs. group example-ipv4 { neighbor 192.0.2.0; } group example-ipv6 { neighbor 2001:db8::; } Hey folks

Re: [j-nsp] LSP's with IPV6 on Juniper

2018-08-28 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: Just out of curiosity is there a business problem/requirement/limitation you're trying to solve by not changing the next hop to v6 mapped v4 address and using native v6 NHs instead please? I'd asked a similar question as the OP two

Re: [j-nsp] mx960 crashed

2018-04-04 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Aaron Gould wrote: Any idea why this happened and how do I tshoot cause ? login: root Password:SysRq : Trigger a crash Looks like you're running a RE-S-X6-64G, and somehow sent it SysRq c -- which is a break followed by c within 5 seconds on a serial console -- and

[j-nsp] Mixing v4/v6 neighbors in BGP groups

2018-06-29 Thread Rob Foehl
Wondering aloud a bit... I've seen plenty of cases where wedging parallel v4/v6 sessions into the same BGP group and letting the router sort out which AFI it's supposed to be using on each session works fine, and nearly as many where configuring anything family-specific starts to get ugly

Re: [j-nsp] Router for full routes

2018-06-29 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Mark Tinka wrote: But to your question, there is nothing ancient about the MX240. It's just small. Look at your future needs and consider whether having those 2 line card slots running the latest-generation Trio chip will scale better than migrating to the MX204, and that

Re: [j-nsp] "set routing-options protect core" breaks local-preference

2018-09-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Karl Gerhard wrote: thanks for sharing, seems like all Junos versions above 17.3R3 are affected. I'd been hoping this was specific to 18.x, but no such luck. We'd just settled on 17.4 in large part due to the number of times we've heard that it's received "extra QA",

Re: [j-nsp] "set routing-options protect core" breaks local-preference

2018-09-26 Thread Rob Foehl
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Ivan Malyarchuk wrote: Hi. We also find something wrong with "protect core". Seems like Junos 18.1 and 18.2 (running on MX204 in our case) makes one #Multipath equal-cost group with ALL paths except one worst AND one with worst path - as backup. I think it must create

Re: [j-nsp] EVPN/VXLAN experience

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 22 mars 2019 13:39 -04, Rob Foehl : I've got a few really large layer 2 domains that I'm looking to start breaking up and stitching back together with EVPN+VXLAN in the middle, on the order of a few thousand VLANs apiece. Trying to plan around any

Re: [j-nsp] EVPN/VXLAN experience (was: EX4600 or QFX5110)

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: What did bother us was that you are limited (at least on QFX5100) in the amount of "VLANs" (VNIs). We were testing with 30 client full-trunk ports per leaf and with that amount you can only provision around 500 VLANs before you get errors and

[j-nsp] EVPN all-active toward large layer 2?

2019-04-17 Thread Rob Foehl
I've been experimenting with EVPN all-active multihoming toward some large legacy layer 2 domains, and running into some fairly bizarre behavior... First and foremost, is a topology like this even a valid use case? EVPN PE <-> switch <-> switch <-> EVPN PE ...where both switches are STP root

Re: [j-nsp] EVPN all-active toward large layer 2?

2019-04-18 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Krzysztof Szarkowicz wrote: Hi Rob, RFC 7432, Section 8.5: If a bridged network is multihomed to more than one PE in an EVPN network via switches, then the support of All-Active redundancy mode requires the bridged network to be connected to two or more PEs using

Re: [j-nsp] EVPN all-active toward large layer 2?

2019-04-18 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Wojciech Janiszewski wrote: You have effectively created L2 loop over EVPN, so to cut it you need a link between bridged network and EVPN to be a single link. There is no STP in EVPN. If you need two physical connections to between those networks, then LAG is a way to go.

Re: [j-nsp] prsearch missing in inaction

2019-05-08 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Nathan Ward wrote: Is it actually coming back? Hard to believe the “technical issue” given how long it’s been, seems like a pretty big systemic issue rather than a technical one. “Actively worked on” seems pretty inactive, to me. Maybe it runs on Space, and they're just

Re: [j-nsp] MX204 vs. MX240??

2019-11-09 Thread Rob Foehl
I'll preface this by saying that the MX204 is a great box, and fits many a niche quite well... However: On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Clarke Morledge wrote: My understanding is that the MX204 is a 1 RU MPC7, but with a few modifications. More or less -- it's an RE glued to the non-fabric-facing

Re: [j-nsp] BPDUs over EVPN?

2019-10-18 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Gert Doering wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:37:16PM -0400, Rob Foehl wrote: Is EVPN expected to be forwarding BPDUs at all, intact or otherwise? The way understand "how things are meant to be plugged together", you should not see forwarded BPDUs - "co

Re: [j-nsp] BPDUs over EVPN?

2019-10-21 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Rob Foehl wrote: Juniper is now telling me that this is occuring by design, but can't point to any documentation or standards which support that, nor explain why it suddenly changed post-upgrade. I'm... not convinced. Plot twist: the BPDUs in question turned out

Re: [j-nsp] BPDUs over EVPN?

2019-10-18 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Gert Doering wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:37:21PM +0200, Daniel Verlouw wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:45 AM Gert Doering wrote: If yes, is this something people do over EVPN? as an extension to 'plain' EVPN, yes. It's called EVPN-VPWS, RFC 8214. Basically EVPN

[j-nsp] BPDUs over EVPN?

2019-10-17 Thread Rob Foehl
Seeing something "interesting" after an 18.1R3 to 18.4R1 upgrade on some EVPN PEs: the 18.4 boxes are now emitting BPDUs toward the CE interfaces containing pre-translation VLAN IDs from the CEs attached to remote PEs, which as far as I can tell are originating from the remote CE. Is EVPN

[j-nsp] EVPN all-active vs. layer 3

2019-11-11 Thread Rob Foehl
Given a pair of EX uplinked to a pair of MX, with various downstream CE that may be single devices or their own layer 2 topologies, as in this terrible diagram: MX1 - MX2 | / \ | EX1 EX2 \ / CEs ...and a need to deliver various EVPN services to access ports on the EX,

Re: [j-nsp] MX204 vs. MX240??

2019-11-11 Thread Rob Foehl
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Saku Ytti wrote: More or less -- it's an RE glued to the non-fabric-facing parts of the MPC7, which tends to tickle some "interesting" corner cases in code that assumes there's a fabric chip present. I don't think RE connects atypically in MX204. RE is ETH+PCI connected,

Re: [j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710

2020-01-22 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Giuliano C. Medalha wrote: TE / TE++ and auto-bandwidth Still broken? Been hearing excuses about why these don't work on merchant silicon boxes since the EX3200... -Rob ___ juniper-nsp mailing list

Re: [j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710

2020-01-22 Thread Rob Foehl
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Saku Ytti wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 11:48, Rob Foehl wrote: TE / TE++ and auto-bandwidth Still broken? Been hearing excuses about why these don't work on merchant silicon boxes since the EX3200... Excuses seems strong word, it implies you know what merchant

Re: [j-nsp] MX subscriber captive portal - redirect and rewrite simultaneously

2020-09-01 Thread Rob Foehl
I'll preface this by saying I don't have anything constructive to add... On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, Nathan Ward wrote: I’ve tried JTAC on this, twice. First on 16.1, and again now on 19.4. Both times JTAC have either not understood and stalled for months and refused to escalate to someone who does

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-07-29 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, Jeffrey Haas wrote: - "show bgp output-scheduler" is empty without top-level "protocols bgp output-queue-priority" config, regardless of anything else - Top-level "protocols bgp family evpn signaling" priority config -- and nothing else within that stanza -- broke every

[j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-07-27 Thread Rob Foehl
Anyone know the secret to getting BGP output queue priorities working across multiple NLRIs? Had trouble with EVPN routes getting stuck behind full refreshes of the v4 RIB, often for minutes at a time, which causes havoc with the default DF election hold timer of 3 seconds. Bumping those

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-11-09 Thread Rob Foehl
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Jeffrey Haas wrote: As the source of this particular bit of difficulty, a bit of explanation for why it simply wasn't done when the initial feature was authored. Much appreciated -- the explanation, anyway ;) An immense amount of work in the BGP code is built around the

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-11-10 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Gert Doering wrote: Can you do the EVPN routes on a separate session (different loopback on both ends, dedicated to EVPN-afi-only BGP)? Or separate RRs? Yes, this is not what you're asking, just a wild idea to make life better :-) Not that wild -- I've already been

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-11-10 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Robert Raszuk wrote: But what seems wired is last statement:  "This has problems with blackholing traffic for long periods in several cases,..."  We as the industry have solved this problem many years ago, by clearly decoupling connectivity restoration term from protocol

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-11-10 Thread Rob Foehl
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Jeffrey Haas wrote: The thing to remember is that even though you're not getting a given afi/safi as front-loaded as you want (absolute front of queue), as soon as we have routes for that priority they're dispatched accordingly. Right, that turns out to be the essential

Re: [j-nsp] BGP output queue priorities between RIBs/NLRIs

2020-11-09 Thread Rob Foehl
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020, Rob Foehl wrote: Anyone know the secret to getting BGP output queue priorities working across multiple NLRIs? [...] I've tried about a dozen combinations of options, and cannot get any other result with inet/evpn routes in the same session -- inet.0 routes always arrive

Re: [j-nsp] RSVP path constraints for transit LSPs

2021-02-08 Thread Rob Foehl
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Robert Huey wrote: Have you looked into IGP Overload? I think it will do the trick without ever getting into TE constraints. In this case, it's OSPF, so overload is just max metric. The path metric already exceeds any other through the network under ordinary

[j-nsp] RSVP path constraints for transit LSPs

2021-02-05 Thread Rob Foehl
Possibly-missing-something-obvious question: are there any less-involved alternatives to link coloring to preclude RSVP from signaling LSPs through specific nodes? I've got some traffic occasionally wandering off where it shouldn't be -- mostly due to bypass LSPs landing on some "temporary"

Re: [j-nsp] Thanks for all the fish

2024-01-09 Thread Rob Foehl via juniper-nsp
On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 10:55 +0200, Saku Ytti via juniper-nsp wrote: > What do we think of HPE acquiring JNPR? I'm just hoping the port checker gets updated to show which slots will accept a fresh magenta cartridge in order to bring BGP back up... (Just kidding -- but only because it's the wrong