> > On another note, the potential issue we might run into is pressure on > control plane memory on the MX204 for us that run BGP Add-Paths. You can > always upgrade the RE on an MX240/480/960, but the MX204 is fixed (and > last time I checked, fiddling with Juniper RE memory was generally > frowned upon). >
In my experience and testing with them, you have a decent bit of headroom past the published RIB/FIB limits before they'll fall over. On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 11:35 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > On 8/23/23 17:14, Matt Erculiani wrote: > > > Does Fusion not make sense in this case? I've not had a ton of > > experience with it, but it does well to add a crazy port count to an > > otherwise very port limited device. > > In small edge PoP's, we attach an Arista 1U switch with tons of 1/10Gbps > ports to an MX204 via 802.1Q. Works a treat. I've never been convinced > by vendor-specific satellite systems :-). > > On another note, the potential issue we might run into is pressure on > control plane memory on the MX204 for us that run BGP Add-Paths. You can > always upgrade the RE on an MX240/480/960, but the MX204 is fixed (and > last time I checked, fiddling with Juniper RE memory was generally > frowned upon). > > Luckily, the MX10003 ships with 64GB of RAM, since it is now EoL. > > The MX304 ships with 128GB of RAM, so anybody running Add-Paths on that > box won't have an issue there. > > Mark. >