I know legally you are not supposed to use the four 10G built in ports on a Juniper MX5 unless you buy an upgrade license to a MX40 or MX80 level. I would like to know if technically will these ports work, or has Juniper software locked them down?
Some old posts said that they have not locked them down.Others say you can use it for 30 days, but then they don't mention what happens after 30 days? Some say you can use it, but then the box constantly throws errors. I see from the feature explorer, version Junos OS 13.2R1 has a " Enforcing license-based restrictions while upgrading Junos OS" feature.This feature is provided along with support for an upgrade license key for license-based features. When upgrading a Junos OS installation, a license for a feature is considered valid if the release version in the license key is greater than or equal to the release version of the software upgrade. Valid license keys are displayed in the output of the show system license command. http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.2/topics/concept/junos-license-key-components.html In this guide it says: Restricting port capacity is achieved by making a set of MIC slots and ports licensable. MICs without a license are locked, and are unlocked or made usable by installing appropriate upgrade licenses. The base capacity of a router is identified by the Ideeprom assembly ID (I2C ID), which defines the board type. However, the Junos OS licensing infrastructure allows the use of restricted ports without a license for a grace period of 30 days. After the grace period expires, the router reverts back to the base capacity if no upgrade license is purchased and installed for the locked ports. Does anyone have real world experience with using the 10G ports on a MX5? _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
