Re: [j-nsp] SRX550 as MPLS/VPLS platform

2014-04-16 Thread Ben Dale
Hi Tom, I'm going through a deployment using a mixture of MX5s and SRX240s PE routers right now, and I've been pretty happy with the results. We're using RSVP-TE and BGP to set up L3VPNs, VPLSs and L2VPNs and it's working almost flawlessly. So far, the only issues I've encountered with the SR

Re: [j-nsp] SRX550 as MPLS/VPLS platform

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Storey
Cost, essentially. I have recommended the MX5-MX80 series instead, being a proper routing platform, but was asked to find other options too. On 16 Apr 2014 20:07, "Chris Jones" wrote: > Why not an MX instead? > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Tom Storey wrote: > >> Hi everyone. >> >> The

[j-nsp] SRX550 as MPLS/VPLS platform

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Storey
Hi everyone. The SRX240 works pretty well as an MPLS/VPLS platform when stuck in packet mode. I am wondering if the SRX550 operates in a similar way? Has anyone out there used an SRX550 as a slightly more high powered xPLS platform? Of particular interest it has 10GE modules available that the S

Re: [j-nsp] Verifying Juniper ECMP

2014-04-16 Thread John Neiberger
​Another question: if a link in a ECMP "bundle" goes down and then comes back up later, do things end up hashed and balanced the same way they were prior to the link going down, or is there some amount of randomness to it? If I check a certain flow and see that it is hashed to a particular link, is