Re: [j-nsp] flowspec in logical-systems

2017-04-09 Thread Thomas Bellman
iguration groups FOO' to see everything concerning FOO, without having to wade through everything that concerns FIE or FUM. - -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "Life IS pain, highness. Anyone who tells ! bellman @ nsc . liu . se differently is sel

Re: [j-nsp] Many contributing routes

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2017-08-09 09:05, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I am generating a default route to distribute with a policy statement > like that: > > #v+ > policy-statement v4-DEFAULT-ROUTE-GENERATE { [...] > } > #v- > > This works just fine but there are a lot of contributing routes (about > 400k) to

[j-nsp] Cut-through forwarding statistics on QFX5100

2017-06-21 Thread Thomas Bellman
for just ingress or egress, or even just a total for the entire system. The switch is running Junos 17.2R1 if that matters. - -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "We don't understand the software, and! bellman @ nsc . liu . se sometimes we

Re: [j-nsp] QFX5100 buffer allocation

2018-05-17 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-05-17 02:41, Brian Rak wrote: > We're not even doing 10gbit of traffic, so the buffers should last at > least a little bit. And you're not hitting 10 Gbit/s even under very short bursts of a few milliseconds? Microbursts like that don't show up in "normal" usage graphs where you only

Re: [j-nsp] QFX5100 buffer allocation

2018-05-16 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-05-16 18:06, Brian Rak wrote: > We've been trying to track down why our 5100's are dropping traffic > due to lack of buffer space, even with very low link utilization. There's only 12 Mbyte of buffer space on the Trident II chip. If you get 10 Gbit/s bursts simultaneously on two ports,

[j-nsp] OSPFv3 monitoring using SNMP

2018-06-08 Thread Thomas Bellman
have some other SNMP table I should look in to be able to map neighbours to interfaces? (I see the same behaviour on Junos 17.2R1.13, 17.3R1-S3 and 18.1R1.9.) -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "Life IS pain, highness. Anyone who tells ! bell

Re: [j-nsp] Spine & leaf

2018-06-27 Thread Thomas Bellman
er OSPF networks. -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the hardware, but we can *see* the blinking lights!" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [j-nsp] Spine & leaf

2018-06-25 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-06-25 18:22, Scott Whyte wrote: > BGP, as you say, provides excellent filtering capabilities.  What > does OSPF/ISIS bring to the table? Automatic discovery of peers, and thus less unique configuration. You don't need to configure each peer individually, just the interface. If you do

Re: [j-nsp] STP in spine leaf architecture

2017-10-27 Thread Thomas Bellman
and-leaf network myself. I am trying to migrate towards one, but we still have several "impurities", and have STP running in several places.) -- Thomas Bellman <bell...@nsc.liu.se> National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping University, Sweden signat

Re: [j-nsp] EX4550 or QFX5100 for Core

2018-08-03 Thread Thomas Bellman
bout many vendors) about limitations or problems with virtual chassis to feel comfortable with that. -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the hardware, but we can *see* the blinking light

Re: [j-nsp] EX4550 or QFX5100 for Core

2018-08-07 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-08-07 14:21, Giovanni Bellac via juniper-nsp wrote: > Sorry, my first email was not clear enough that I require Base-T > (copper) ports. > QFX5110 etc. are looking great on paper, but with copper optics the > docs are saying: > ### > Caution > Do not place a copper transceiver in an

Re: [j-nsp] Network automation vs. manual config

2018-08-19 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-08-19 08:11, Nathan Ward wrote: > I would be interested in a way to build a command alias with > `| display inheritance | display commit-scripts | display omit | exclude #` > or something - `exclude #` isn’t the best either, as # is often in int > description etc. Slightly aside: instead

Re: [j-nsp] MX204 and copper SFP?

2018-04-05 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-04-04 21:09, Niall Donaghy wrote: > Even more sad to see that 1G ports retain their xe- naming rather than > changing to ge- as you would hope and expect. I have never understood the reason for having different names for ports depending on the speed of the transceiver. To me, it just

Re: [j-nsp] OSPF reference-bandwidth 1T

2019-01-22 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-01-22 12:02 MET, Pavel Lunin wrote: >> (I am myself running a mostly DC network, with a little bit of campus >> network on the side, and we use bandwidth-based metrics in our OSPF. >> But we have standardized on using 3 Tbit/s as our "reference bandwidth", >> and Junos doesn't allow us to

Re: [j-nsp] OSPF reference-bandwidth 1T

2019-01-17 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-01-16 16:41 MET, Saku Ytti wrote: > No one should be using bandwidth based metrics, it's quite > non-sensical. I would recommend that if you have only few egress > points for given prefix, adopt role based metric P-PE, P-P-city, > P-P-country etc. If you have many egress options for given

Re: [j-nsp] interface-range inheritance change in 14.1X53 and 15.1

2018-12-21 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-12-21 23:22 UTC, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on WHY this change was made? I much prefer > the old behavior. > > From PR1281947: > > "The behavior of the "interface-range" configuration statement changed > in 14.1X53 and 15.1. Prior to 14.1X53 and 15.1, more

Re: [j-nsp] Silly command?

2018-12-13 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-12-13 16:10, Chris Adams wrote: > While configuring a new MX204, I noticed this: > > admin@newrouter> request vmhost power-o? > Possible completions: > power-offPower off the software on RE > power-on Power on the system > > Umm, why is there a CLI

Re: [j-nsp] JunOS 16.2R2.8 High CPU caused by python

2019-03-27 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-26 21:11 -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Not a solution, but an ignorant question - Is there a function to > kill (and/or restart) the process in this type of scenario? On > IOS-XR, there were specific XR CLI wrappers for restarting a process > as a means to fix stuff like processes run

Re: [j-nsp] 400G is coming?

2019-03-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-14 13:40 -0400, Andrey Kostin wrote: > Accidentally found that MX series datasheet now mentions MPC-10E with > 400G ports > https://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000597-en.pdf [...] > the MPC-10E protects existing investments Gah, I hate that wording. To me it

Re: [j-nsp] 400G is coming?

2019-03-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-18 21:05 UTC, Tim Rayner wrote: > As I understand it, when a 400G port is enabled, 3 of the 100G ports > are made un-available (not sure whether there is an option for sub-rate > on the 400G port keeping more of the 100G ports available), hence there > will be a limit of 1.5 Tbps per

Re: [j-nsp] 400G is coming?

2019-03-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-18 23:24 +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: > Cheaper is subjective. To a small and dynamic shop CAPEX may represent > majority of cost. To an incumbent CAPEX may be entirely irrelevant, > money is cheap, but approving hardware to network may be massive > multiyear project. This is why platforms

Re: [j-nsp] Junos 18.X on QFX5100

2019-05-26 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-05-25 22:38 -0400, Philippe Girard wrote: > Anyone running production Junos 18.X on QFX5100? > > JTAC recommended still says 17.3R3-S4 but I'd really like to jump to 18 for > some new features it offers. We have one QFX5100-48S running 18.3R1.9 (the other QFX5100 we have runs

Re: [j-nsp] LAG/ECMP hash performance

2019-08-29 Thread Thomas Bellman
used to mangle them - which is very different from saying > that packet's CRC is used as input. I don't think anyone has said that any product use the ethernet packet's CRC for LAG/ECMP hashing. Just that they might reuse the CRC circuitry in the NPU/ASIC for calculating this hash, but based on

Re: [j-nsp] QSFP+ to SFP+ adapters

2020-03-16 Thread Thomas Bellman
ight be that the Dell switches got some newer version of the adapters; I'm fairly certain the adapters in the Dells are ones we received in 2018, while I suspect the adapters in the Juniper are ones we got in the 2012-2014 timespan. I might be able to check and test sometime later this week, but no p

Re: [j-nsp] QFX3500 and... multicast forward (VRRP related)

2021-09-15 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
On 2021-09-13 13:56, Xavier Beaudouin wrote: > I have a strange clue with an QFX3500-48S4Q, and with "simple" VRRP > setup. > > On port xe-0/0/6.0 I have a infrastructure (cisco switches) with a > VLAN 3016 who want to be VRRP with an MX204 on et-0/1/0.0. > > Current config of the switch : > >

Re: [j-nsp] Cut through and buffer questions

2021-11-19 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
On 2021-11-19 09:49, james list via juniper-nsp wrote: > I try to rephrase the question you do not understand: if I enable cut > through or change buffer is it traffic affecting ? On the QFX 5xxx series and (at least) EX 46xx series, the forwarding ASIC needs to reset in order to change between

Re: [j-nsp] Cut through and buffer questions

2021-11-19 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
space in Trident 2, which is used in QFX5100 and EX4600, 3 Mbyte is used for per-port dedicated buffers, and 9 Mbyte is shared between all ports. I believe on later chips an even larger percentage is shared. -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden &qu

Re: [j-nsp] QFX5100-48S-AFI/AFO vs QFX5100-48S-3AFI/AFO

2021-10-26 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
On 2021-10-26 23:27, Han Hwei Woo via juniper-nsp wrote: > Does anyone know if there are any differences between the > QFX5100-48S versions with or without the '3'? The normal version of QFX5100 have two management ethernet ports, one SFP port and one twisted pair ("RJ45") port, while the

Re: [j-nsp] VRRP for IPv6

2022-01-25 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
On 2022-01-25 22:53, Chris Adams via juniper-nsp wrote: > I wasn't planning to use a virtual link-local address, so I didn't put > one. The JUNOS VRRP for v6 example doesn't include one, although then > the JUNOS documentation for virtual-link-local-address is oddly > confusing: For IPv6, the

Re: [j-nsp] MX304 Port Layout

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
r ports 5, 8 and 14 in their respective groups.) I hope that's a bug in the port checker, not actual behaviour by the MX304... -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the hardware, but we can *

[j-nsp] QSA28 adapter in QFX5120-32C

2023-11-20 Thread Thomas Bellman via juniper-nsp
o work in a PTX10001-36MR, if you configure it with interfaces { et-0/1/4 { number-of-sub-ports 4; speed 25g; } } but that syntax is not accepted by Junos on QFX5120 (I suppose it is specific to Junos Evolved). -- Thomas Bellman, National