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 <jhe...@suffieldacademy.org> wrote: > 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. > Since we're talking about counters, see if you can spot the error with IPv6 > accounting in the output from our 5100 below (about 50% of our traffic is > v6): > > Transit statistics: > Input bytes : 284315487788005 412457312 bps > Output bytes : 39937401090441 29417528 bps > Input packets: 231391925059 39552 pps > Output packets: 88278182551 10809 pps > IPv6 transit statistics: > Input bytes : 0 > Output bytes : 0 > Input packets: 0 > Output packets: 0 > > > ;-) > > I believe the 5100 just announced EOL ( > https://support.juniper.net/support/eol/product/qfx_series/); I haven't > had time to look at the replacement models to see if they behave any better. > > Jason