Re: [j-nsp] Drawbacks when using QFX5100 and EX4300 in mixed VCF mode

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Lunin
19.08.2014 19:51, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: --- Hardware Requirements for a Virtual Chassis Fabric A VCF can contain up to four devices configured as spines, and up to twenty total devices. All spine devices must be

Re: [j-nsp] Drawbacks when using QFX5100 and EX4300 in mixed VCF mode

2014-08-21 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 05:07:05PM +0400, Pavel Lunin wrote: except maybe some corner-cases (which I am not aware of). Using QFX3600 as leafs when spines are QFX5100 is non-reasonable from the pure performance PoV as QFX3600 is a 40GE switch and QFX5100 is 10GE. What about EX4300—of course any

Re: [j-nsp] Drawbacks when using QFX5100 and EX4300 in mixed VCF mode

2014-08-21 Thread Kurt Bales
The corner case for QFX3500 is that it is still the only Juniper switch with native FC support, though most others have good FCoE transport support. Regards, Kurt Bales @networkjanitor JNCIE-ENT #368 On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Pavel Lunin plu...@senetsy.ru wrote: 19.08.2014 19:51,

[j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, So I’m still a bit confused on what can or can’t be used in the flow monitoring processes. In this case I have an SRX 3600 with a routing instance. I found a config example that illustrates how to enable flow sampling in this type of environment. It specifically mentions that you

Re: [j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Tyler Christiansen
This is platform-dependent. Some platforms (definitely EX, probably SRX) use the RE for processing flow data--so you can use fxp0. Other platforms (MX) use the PFE, which is why fxp0 is not a valid interface. I did some testing on this a few months ago to confirm that EX switches (at least

Re: [j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Granados
This makes sense to me. Thanks for such a good response I really feel like I have a better bead on this now. Thanks Scott On Aug 21, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Tyler Christiansen ty...@adap.tvmailto:ty...@adap.tv wrote: This is platform-dependent. Some platforms (definitely EX, probably SRX) use

Re: [j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Tyler Christiansen
No problem. Just keep in mind that with the RE processing flow data, you can quickly kill your RE if your sampling rate is too low. 1:1 sampling with the MX isn't as problematic since it's processed by the PFE. --tc On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Scott Granados sc...@granados-llc.net

Re: [j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Granados
So the interesting thing is I had opened a ticket to ask this same question and I got a totally opposite answer.:) I guess the best thing to do here is after hours today test out the config and see how it goes. Else spin up another 3600 in the lab and give it a run through. Your answer makes

Re: [j-nsp] Using the FXP for flow sources

2014-08-21 Thread Tyler Christiansen
Yeah. Maybe the SRX3600 (and all high-end SRX) is a bit different, but I'm pretty sure when we tested the SRX550 (branch) it was handled by the RE. I just checked an SRX1400 (high end/data center), and the RE is definitely handling the flow traffic. This may be due to the way I have it

Re: [j-nsp] Full BGP table, one provider w/ 2 routers, slow forwarding convergence

2014-08-21 Thread Clarke Morledge
I wanted to follow-up on the list with a report of what I did to try to resolve this issue. I have not had the opportunity to try to play tricks with routing policy to only populate the forwarding table with a default router while still receiving a full Internet router table via BGP. It is a

Re: [j-nsp] Drawbacks when using QFX5100 and EX4300 in mixed VCF mode

2014-08-21 Thread Andy Litzinger
+1 regarding input on VCF Does anyone have any practical experience with a VCF either mixed-mode or not? We're evaluating it as a replacement for legacy 6509s. Cisco is pitching a Nexus 6004 + FEX solution. regards, -andy On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger