[j-nsp] RE-850 Route Capacity

Hi all, I was recently informed that RE-850s with 1.5G of RAM have a maximum of 6 million total routes before swapping. Anyone have boxes in production close to this amount? Today I have roughly 1.3 million total routes with and RE memory usage at 50%. I'm interested in doubling or possibly clo

Re: [j-nsp] reusing loopback 0 ip address in vrfs

Funny you mention Draft Rosen because my interest stemmed from multicast testing. -Chip -Original Message- From: Sean Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 1:57 AM To: cp Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [j-nsp] reusing loopback 0 ip address in

[j-nsp] reusing loopback 0 ip address in vrfs

Does anyone see a problem or have any experiences with using the same loopback unit 0 IP addresses for other loopback unit in VRFs? Is this a common practice? For example, loopback unit 0 is 172.16.1.1/32 and lives in inet.0. loopback 425 is 172.16.1.1/32 lives in a vrf. -Chip ___

[j-nsp] juniper mpls mtu

I hoping someone can provide insight into why by default juniper calculates mpls mtu at 12 bytes less than the ip mtu? I've been testing using l3vpn and it seems that mpls mtu pads 8 bytes to its mpls mtu reducing the ip mtu the inside packet by 8 bytes. Quick example. So if mpls mtu is 1508 the i