RE: M5 throughput question

From: Metz, Eduard (Eduard.Metz@kpnqwest.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 03:30:53 EDT


AFIAK there is a limit on the number of DLCIs, VCs (4090) and VLANs (1024)
per interface. I do not think there is a limit in number of corresponding
logical interfaces that drive these limits further down.

cheers,
        Eduard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Dmitri Kalintsev' [mailto:dek@hades.uz]
> Sent: 25 June 2001 00:28
> To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: M5 throughput question
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:20:00AM -0400, Gary Hauser wrote:
> > Sorry I forgot to answer the max ports question. With
> currently shipping
> > hardware we are limited to 4 ports per PIC with 4 PIC's per
> FPC. So on an M5
> > that's 16 physical ports.
>
> Sorry for not making things clear but I was referring to the number of
> logical interfaces per box. ;) Or JunOS does not create a
> sub-interface or
> something similar to handle ATM VCs? The question is
> concerning in the sense
> that if I would wish to create say another 3000 dot1q vlan
> subinterfaces on
> my GigE, bringing it to total of 6000 interface descriptors,
> would this
> work? (Not that I plan to do that, but I need to know logical/physical
> limitations before I start engineering something)
>
> SY,
> --
> CCNP, CCDP (R&S) Dmitri E. Kalintsev
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