Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Leigh Porter: I thought that as soon as you turn MPLS on the flow mode was diabled and you were back to good old packet mode? No, packets targeted at the device itself are still processed in flow mode. According to the documentation, there is no way around that. It means that all existing

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Leigh Porter
Oh... Would anybody mind telling me why this was a good idea? -- Leigh * Leigh Porter: I thought that as soon as you turn MPLS on the flow mode was diabled and you were back to good old packet mode? No, packets targeted at the device itself are still processed in flow mode. According to

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread sthaug
I thought that as soon as you turn MPLS on the flow mode was diabled and you were back to good old packet mode? No, packets targeted at the device itself are still processed in flow mode. According to the documentation, there is no way around that. It means that all existing TCP sessions

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory use increase with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Andy Davidson
On 20 Jul 2010, at 23:14, Christopher E. Brown wrote: I know alot of us here have been bitten by this, and the fact that disabling flow mode and reverting to packet does not free up any of the ~ 460MB or so being eaten by fwdd/flowd is insane. I am currently having the This is a design

Re: [j-nsp] MX Capabilities - flexible-ethernet-services

2010-07-22 Thread Eric Van Tol
Hate to reply to my own post, but the solution below worked just fine. -Original Message- From: juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp- boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Eric Van Tol Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:34 AM To: juniper-nsp Subject: [j-nsp] MX

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
Hi all, The issue is not that memory is being pre-allocated to the forwarding / flow process. This is expected and required to function. The issue is that when things switched to flow support the memory usage went *way* up, and even when you convert to packet mode it is not reduced. It

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Andy Davidson
On 21 Jul 2010, at 23:28, Nilesh Khambal wrote: I am not a J-Series person and don't know much about flowd operation but does the memory utilization come down when you reboot the router after disabling the flow mode? You can't disable it completely, it needs to remain on for packets destined

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory use increase with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
On 21.07.2010 22:34, Christopher E. Brown wrote: That is exactly our use, up to a couple hundred megs of IP services on one, a couple hundred of L3 MPLS on another, and L2-circuit/vpls on a third. Alaska has many small remote locations. For larger areas, M and MX platforms are better, and

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Heath Jones
Cheers for the insight Pavel - sounds like you have been on this one for a while.. I'm just curious about the cash people actually have to spend on routers/firewalls these days. All the providers (especially small/mid sized ones) I have dealt with are trying to remain competitive in a really

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory use increase with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
On 22.07.2010 14:33, Alexandre Snarskii wrote: we also bump into the requirements of cheap devices running everything including L3VPN/VPLS for a few hundred megs. I would suggest to use SRX240H in packet mode and don't even think about full BGP (they can't) You can try the same trick as

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Pavel Lunin plu...@senetsy.ru said: It is also normal since J series became firewalls. Yeah, but I bought J-series routers, not firewalls. If you believe you really need this, why not to stay at old good 9.3 packet-based JUNOS? And when Juniper stops supporting that

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
Hi Heath, I share your emotions, bloody capitalists are a burden to working-class (joke). But the problem is that there are not so many exceptions. If you know some, please let me know :) Another problem is that customers are also not ideal. Many of them very often want to run something

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory use increase with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
Example: you run routed metro (or datacenter) ethernet ring, with less than 12k entries in FIB. One of your customers wants to turn BGP on his link. There are lots of choices on how to do that: [...] But that is one of cases when having full-view in your edge switch RIB and redistributed to

Re: [j-nsp] forwarding-class without scheduler

2010-07-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:25:35 am Benny Sumitro wrote: Are you doing it on J series or M series? J series platform will discard any unclassified queue (at least, that is what i experienced when i still have j series with junos 8.x installed) while M series will still forward those

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory use increase with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
IIRC, it's quite possible to use closest MX-series router to mix draft-kompella pseudowire from EX-series into VPLS domain (it was discussed in this list not so long time ago). Not sure about L3VPN though. BTW. Kompella? Didn't you mean CCC? EX only support single label MPLS.

[j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I'm trying to test some C to J EoMPLS interoperability, but the only J box that I have doesn't have any free interfaces on it, so I have nowhere to connect a test CE and use the CE to ping the far end. Is there any way to stick a subnet on to an l2circuit directly instead of having to use a

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Whyte
* Leigh Porter: I thought that as soon as you turn MPLS on the flow mode was diabled and you were back to good old packet mode? No, packets targeted at the device itself are still processed in flow mode. According to the documentation, there is no way around that. It means that all

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Whyte
IMO Juniper has royally screwed up in the small router/CPE market. One can hope that they won't perform similar stunts on the M/MX/T series. There's absolutely no reason why this would be considered. The fact that you would make that statement leads me to believe that people might not

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Nilesh Khambal
Assuming its martini l2ckt you are talking about, you could establish l2ckt with lt- interfaces. Peer 2 units of lt- with each other. Put one unit in inet.0 with IP address configured and use other unit with ethernet ccc or vlan-ccc encap to establish the l2ckt. You can then ping the remote IP

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:49:55PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I'm trying to test some C to J EoMPLS interoperability, but the only J box that I have doesn't have any free interfaces on it, so I have nowhere to connect a test CE and use the CE to ping the far end. Is there any way to stick

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2010-07-22, at 3:03 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: you can't do the mpls ping to validate? (ping mpls l2vpn ...) Wouldn't I need an attachment circuit in order for the l2vpn to come up, or are you saying that a successful ping mpls l2vpn is independent of the state of the attachment circuit?

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2010-07-22, at 3:13 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:49:55PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I'm trying to test some C to J EoMPLS interoperability, but the only J box that I have doesn't have any free interfaces on it, so I have nowhere to connect a test CE and

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Amos Rosenboim
Chris, Thanks for your feedback. However I think it does not address the following points: 1. Memory consumption increased by flow mode even if the router reverts to packet mode the pre allocation is not released. 2. Upgrade from packet mode version to flow mode version locks you out of the

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread sthaug
IMO Juniper has royally screwed up in the small router/CPE market. One can hope that they won't perform similar stunts on the M/MX/T series. There's absolutely no reason why this would be considered. The fact that you would make that statement leads me to believe that people might not

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Amos Rosenboim
Chris, The discussion is about J series routers, not SRXs. The J series are marketed as routers not security devices and turning them to security devices all of a sudden is a decision I still don't understand. If you want to open a discussion about SRX we can do that. I have no experience

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Whyte
Fair enough. I personally don't have answers to those questions but I'll do what I can to make sure they get answered in the next day or two. Thanks, Chris On 7/22/10 12:19 PM, Amos Rosenboim a...@oasis-tech.net wrote: Chris, Thanks for your feedback. However I think it does not address

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Mark Kamichoff
Hi Jason - On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:49:55PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I'm trying to test some C to J EoMPLS interoperability, but the only J box that I have doesn't have any free interfaces on it, so I have nowhere to connect a test CE and use the CE to ping the far end. Is there any

Re: [j-nsp] Is putting an IP on an l2circuit possible?

2010-07-22 Thread Nilesh Khambal
In that case, as Richard mentioned, you will need a service-pic to create lt- (logical tunnel) interface. If you just have one Gig port on J, you could force it in local loopback mode via CLI. That you bring up the port in up up state and should be able to bring up the l2ckt as well. Then you can

Re: [j-nsp] M20 JunOS Recommendation

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Hodle
We have several old m20's with RE2's terminating STM16 wavelengths, all stable running JUNOS 9.3R2.8. This requires some hardware hacks - if you want to get your hands dirty you can upgrade the 96MB CF card on the RE2 to 1GB and the DRAM on SSB from 64MB to 128MB. I believe the procedures are well

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
3. The issues raised below (I didn't realize this myself ) about sessions destined to the router still being processed as flow mode, which can tear down TCP sessions under certain circumstances. Does anyone have a proof link for this? I've just checked a J series running 10.0R2 packet-mode

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Pavel Lunin
Hi Chris, The entire SRX product line (branch and high-end) covers the performance spectrum across M and MX series but were created specifically as purpose-built security devices and therefore should be implemented as such. Let me clarify the claim a little bit. The problem is that by the

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Leigh Porter
I absolutely agree with the posts on the J-series boxes. I need lots of small(ish) boxes that will do a reasonable throughput of MPLS (PWEs, L3VPN etc) and I was really liking the J-series, but I need some QinQ stuff that they dont support, so I thought about the SRX would be ideal, but these

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Heath Jones
Chris I think you've hit the nail on the head here.. In my experience communication from Juniper is, exactly that. Simplex mode only. Any opening up of channels and getting the message from customers and 'partners' back into Juniper is greatly appreciated! Cheers On 22 July 2010 20:59, Chris

Re: [j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

2010-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:27:21AM +0400, Pavel Lunin wrote: Let me clarify the claim a little bit. The problem is that by the moment when Juniper decieded to close old good packet branch for J and rename JUNOS ES to just JUNOS for J series (we all know this was actually done mainly to