RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-17 Thread Jean St-Laurent via NANOG
lnet, ipmi, web scenarios, etc (never face a coirner-case that can't be monitored so far) Really awesome at infrastructure level. Jean -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Saku Ytti Sent: May 17, 2021 3:34 AM To: Sander Steffann Cc: Michael Fiumano ; nanog list Subject: R

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-17 Thread Saku Ytti
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 00:22, Sander Steffann wrote: > How do you normalise? Use L2 or L3 octets stats, and use the number of > packets to calculate the L2 and/or L1 overhead the stats are missing? > Or do you have a better way? That's the way one of my employers did it, and I can't think of a

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-16 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi! On Sat, 2021-05-15 at 11:38 +0300, Saku Ytti wrote: > Juniper has worked like this since day1 and shockingly the world > doesn't care, people really don't care for accuracy. CLI and SNMP are > both L3. If you want to report L2 'set chassis fpc N pic N > account-layer2-overhead'. > > However,

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-16 Thread Jon Lewis
On Sun, 16 May 2021, Colton Conor wrote: Looks like its replacement is the 5120 series. The question is does the 5120 have the same limitations and similar chipset?  Severly limited TCAM makes use of ACLs challenging. --

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-16 Thread Mark Tinka
All sounds like a bit of Broadcom to me :-). Mark. On 5/16/21 14:56, Colton Conor wrote: Looks like its replacement is the 5120 series. The question is does the 5120 have the same limitations and similar chipset? On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM Jason Healy

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-16 Thread Colton Conor
Looks like its replacement is the 5120 series. The question is does the 5120 have the same limitations and similar chipset? On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM Jason Healy wrote: > To echo Alain's comments earlier, the Juniper QFX 5100 series is stable, > once you figure out all the shortcomings of

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-16 Thread Jason Healy
To echo Alain's comments earlier, the Juniper QFX 5100 series is stable, once you figure out all the shortcomings of the chipset. We aren't doing anything fancy, but have certainly bumped into our share of issues that have no workaround because it's a limitation of the physical hardware.

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 13:00, Mark Tinka wrote: > Because end users will demand compensation and lawyer time for only > getting 195Mbps on their 200Mbps service. 195Mbps is not 200Mbps. Customers and operators both have very little idea what they are doing. Most people have no idea what the

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/15/21 10:38, Saku Ytti wrote: Not sure why 76 is better than 24. Both are wrong and will cause operational confusion because people think the link is not congested. This is extremely poorly understood even by professionals, so poorly that people regularly think you can't get 100%

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-15 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey Michael, > If accurate interface stats are important to you, MX’s don’t support accurate > SNMP Interface Utilization, ie they don’t comply with RFC2665/3635, which > seems like a fairly basic thing to do but they decided not to, and has been > impactful to me in the past. So, any SNMP

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Adam Thompson
lin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> From: NANOG On Behalf Of Michael Fiumano Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 12:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation If accurate interface stats are important to you, MX’s don’t support accurate SNMP Interfa

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Michael Fiumano
ifHCInOctets ifHCOutOctets Thanks, Michael Fiumano *From:* NANOG *On Behalf Of *Mark Tinka *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2021 10:25 AM *To:* nanog@nanog.org *Subject:* Re: Juniper hardware recommendation On 5/10/21 16:19, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: I prefer MX204 over the ACX5048. The ACX5048

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) -Original Message- From: Adam Thompson Sent: 14 mai 2021 13:30 GMT Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation To: Bjørn Mork Cc: nanog@nanog.org > OK, enough people have pointed it out :-). > > Clearly I was wrong about the MX

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Adam Thompson wrote on 14/05/2021 15:44: I did not know such a thing existed! Cool! Holy murdering your port density, though. Ouch$$$. oh the port wastage is completely criminal, but it can be a handy last resort. Nick

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Adam Thompson
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Hilliard > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 9:40 AM > To: Adam Thompson > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Juniper hardware recommendation > > Adam Thompson wrote on 14/05/2021 14:30: > > However, the MX 10k family still only shows as

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Adam Thompson wrote on 14/05/2021 14:30: However, the MX 10k family still only shows as being compatible with two QSFP cards. And yes, you can get a QSFP-SFP+ breakout cable, but those don't let you use SFP+ CWDM/DWDM transceivers. you can also get QSA adapters to convert from a QSFP form

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Saku Ytti
On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 16:33, Adam Thompson wrote: > However, the MX 10k family still only shows as being compatible with two QSFP > cards. And yes, you can get a QSFP-SFP+ breakout cable, but those don't let > you use SFP+ CWDM/DWDM transceivers. Talk to your account team, you can get the

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-14 Thread Adam Thompson
> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 6:32 AM > To: Adam Thompson > Cc: Javier Gutierrez Guerra ; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Juniper hardware recommendation > > Adam Thompson writes: > > > > * Skip the MX 2k/10k series – they don’t support SFP+ interfaces! > > htt

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/10/21 20:22, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: Thanks Mark.  We have a ring of MX960’s currently and wanted to spare the parts with each other, between the 960’s and 240’s…. scb’s, re’s, mpc’s… Ah, makes sense in that case, then. Mark.

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-10 Thread aaron1
Thanks Mark. We have a ring of MX960’s currently and wanted to spare the parts with each other, between the 960’s and 240’s…. scb’s, re’s, mpc’s… -Aaron

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-10 Thread Baldur Norddahl
man. 10. maj 2021 16.20 skrev : > I prefer MX204 over the ACX5048. The ACX5048 can’t add L3 interface to an > mpls layer 2 type of service. There are other limitations to the ACX5048 > that cause me to want to possibly replace them with MX204’s. But in > defense of the ACX5048, we have gotten

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/10/21 16:19, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: I prefer MX204 over the ACX5048.  The ACX5048 can’t add L3 interface to an mpls layer 2 type of service.  There are other limitations to the ACX5048 that cause me to want to possibly replace them with MX204’s.  But in defense of the ACX5048, we have

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-10 Thread aaron1
I prefer MX204 over the ACX5048. The ACX5048 can’t add L3 interface to an mpls layer 2 type of service. There are other limitations to the ACX5048 that cause me to want to possibly replace them with MX204’s. But in defense of the ACX5048, we have gotten some good mileage (a few years now) of

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-09 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/8/21 23:37, Baldur Norddahl wrote: It is possible to get a 48V 6A DC power supply as a power brick laptop style. Just look at it as an external psu :-) For the number of units we'd need to deploy, it doesn't make sense for us. Easier to buy a UPS than try to convert AC to DC. I

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Baldur Norddahl
lør. 8. maj 2021 22.56 skrev Mark Tinka : > > > On 5/8/21 22:50, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > > > > Maybe they did in the ACX710? Does most things except full routing table. > > We looked at it. Apart from supporting only DC power (which we don't > like), it's Broadcom. > > Granted, there's a whole

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/8/21 22:50, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Maybe they did in the ACX710? Does most things except full routing table. We looked at it. Apart from supporting only DC power (which we don't like), it's Broadcom. Granted, there's a whole new line of ACX7XXX boxes they are putting out, one of

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Baldur Norddahl
lør. 8. maj 2021 09.16 skrev Mark Tinka : > > I just wish Juniper could make an MX204-lite, one with more 10Gbps port > density, e.t.c. > Maybe they did in the ACX710? Does most things except full routing table. We use mx204 to carry the full tables and handle ip transit. And ACX5448 + ACX710

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Bjørn Mork
Adam Thompson writes: > * Skip the MX 2k/10k series – they don’t support SFP+ interfaces! https://apps.juniper.net/hct/model/?component=MX2K-MPC6E https://apps.juniper.net/hct/model/?component=MIC6-10G Bjørn

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/8/21 09:22, Marco Paesani wrote: Hi Mark, PTX series are dedicated for core backbone like "P Provider"... Yes, this is what we are using it for. probably you just using it like "PE Provider Edge" in this role is much better than the MX series. Not this. We have the MX480 for that

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Marco Paesani
Hi Mark, PTX series are dedicated for core backbone like "P Provider" probably you just using it like "PE Provider Edge" in this role is much better than the MX series. My 2 cents Ciao, - Marco Paesani Skype: mpaesani Mobile: +39 348 6019349 Success depends on the right choice ! Email:

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/8/21 00:56, Mann, Jason via NANOG wrote: We are using MX204's as our internet routers and I want to replace our ASR's with them to be used as an aggregate circuit router. With the amount of 10G/40G/100G interface and the price point we have been happy with them. The big issue was

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/7/21 23:28, Javier Gutierrez Guerra wrote: I need to do MPLS (vlls), VXLAN, Multicast, full routing tables, multiple VRFs, q-in-q, QoS If it's a typical MPLS-based, BGP-free(ish) core router, you probably don't need it to do all of those things. If it's a collapsed core (P/PE),

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/7/21 23:14, Adam Thompson wrote: If you don’t already know that you want a PTX, then you don’t want a PTX.  The product is fine, but niche, and has the same interface limitations as MX10k. We are testing the PTX1000 as a core router. Not terribly unhappy so far. Mark.

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 00:17, Adam Thompson wrote: > >- Skip the MX480 (and up), it’s just too expensive. Consider an >EX9200 instead, which can do 90% of the same functions. (If you can afford >an MX480 or MX960, by all means, get one!) > > MX240 and MX480 cost 25k list price.

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 7 mai 2021 21:14 GMT, Adam Thompson: > * Skip the MX 2k/10k series – they don’t support SFP+ interfaces! > (“No 10G WDM for you!”) Also no 1G, you need a separate step-down > switch for that. I don’t know what SP Juniper thinks they’re targeting > with these. The 10k can take 10G SFP+

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Alain Hebert
    Yeah, Routers for the whole Alphabet Soup.     MX204, MX960 are pretty much headache free.  Heck even MX240 could be a good start if you are on a budget.     ( Watch for the EoL ) Distribution ( MPLS Alphabet Soup without VXLAN/EVPN )     QFX5100 made us feel like being full time

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Mann, Jason via NANOG
We are using MX204's as our internet routers and I want to replace our ASR's with them to be used as an aggregate circuit router. With the amount of 10G/40G/100G interface and the price point we have been happy with them. The big issue was learning Junos since we are cisco shop

Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Stephen M
: Friday, May 7, 2021 2:33:23 PM To: 'Javier Gutierrez Guerra' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation You really should discuss this with you local Juniper rep in the first instance I would suggest. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier Gutierrez Guerra Sent: Saturday

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Tony Wicks
You really should discuss this with you local Juniper rep in the first instance I would suggest. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier Gutierrez Guerra Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2021 9:28 am To: r...@rkhtech.org; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation I need to do MPLS (vlls

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Javier Gutierrez Guerra
7, 2021 4:23 PM To: Javier Gutierrez Guerra ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation CAUTION: This email is from an external source. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello! We wouldn’t be able to g

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Ryan Hamel
Hello! We wouldn’t be able to give any sort of answer without knowing your current and future requirements. Each model has its own throughput classes, and sometimes a full on MX router isn’t required. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier Gutierrez Guerra Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 1:55 PM

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Adam Thompson
Hi, Javier! MX series: Full-featured – sings, dances, walks the cat, etc. But painful racking (as you noted). Very nice and comprehensive boxes otherwise. Interfaces are more expensive, but often modular and wider variety. EX/QFX series: Nice switches, OK L3 routers. Lots of limitations in