[j-nsp] MAC accounting / shared medium accounting

[Lars Erik Gullerud]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Jared Mauch wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:02:09AM +0100, Jonas Frey wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anyone know if its possible to do MAC accounting on the M series
>> using normal (old: P/PE, non-b, non-sfp, non-iq) gigabit PIC's?
>> I'd like to do mac accounting to be able to count traffic on a shared
>> medium just like the following script does for cisco:
>> http://www.thiscow.com/dl/bgp-peers-1.5.pl
>>
>> Is anyone running something like this or even has modified the above
>> script to work with junipers?
>
> 	You need the "q-pic"

No, you don't. The new SFP based GE PICs also support MAC accounting, and 
if you don't need the extra CoS features or the stack/rewrite 
functionality of the IQ PICs (formerly QPPs), the P(E)-GE-SFP is a _lot_ 
cheaper option for this use.

/leg