On 02/09/2019 11:16, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 8/Aug/19 05:33, Brandon Martin wrote:
MX204 is a very nice pizza box router for service providers. I'm not aware of anything quite like it in terms of having a mature control plane. I like the JunOS config language better than Cisco-style that most other folks use.
The MX204 is pretty hard to beat. It fits well as a peering/transit router, as well as a Metro-E router where you need a 100Gbps ring to carry 10Gbps customers, as well as downstream cheaper routers that will do sub-10Gbps quite nicely.
That said, at least for the Metro, I still believe a lighter version of the MX204, with dense 1Gbps capability, is still needed. Been asking since 2007.
Mark.
What about handling LAG on 1Gb/sec links? That is a major showstopper if indeed it is missing: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configura... • On MX10003 and MX204 routers, rate selectability at PIC level and port level does not support 1-Gbps speed. • On MX10003 and MX204 routers, the interface name prefix must be xe. • On MX10003 and MX204 routers, even after configuring 1-Gbps speed, the protocol continues to advertise the bandwidth as 10-Gigabit Ethernet. • On MX10003 and MX204 routers, Link Aggregation Group (LAG) is supported on 10-Gbps speed only. It is not supported on 1-Gbps speed. -Hank