[j-nsp] M160/JunOS 7.6R1.10: ae0 fails to install L2 descriptor

[Josef Buchsteiner]

Monday, August 20, 2007, 11:44:51 AM, you wrote:
LG>    
LG>    
LG> Hello,
LG>  
LG>  sorry for digging up this old thread.
LG>  
LG>  --- Josef Buchsteiner <josefb at juniper.net> wrote:
 >>      this how you  can easily calculate and make your math.
 >>
 >>      FPC      has 52252 L2 Descriptor /4 is 13063 vlan arp entries
 >>               aka next-hops per FPC. For non-vlan it would be 16750
 >>               entries.
 >>
 >>      E-FPC has 162891 L2 Descriptor /4 is 40722 vlan arp entries.
 >>
 >>      Enhanced Plus FPC or  M10i/M7i  has  362571  L2
 >>                            Descriptors.   There  is  an  upper
 >>                            boundary of 61183 next-hops per FPC
LG>  
LG>  Are these numbers valid over all the different routing platforms?

     those values are specific to M-Serie

LG>  For example is a T320 FPC3 only able to hold 13063 vlan arp entries
LG>  as well?

     T320  FPC3  with 520k L2 Descriptor space per I/O ASIC could hold
     upto  173K Ethernet ARP  entries  per  PIC since each PIC has its
     own I/O ASIC.

     Josef

LG>  
LG>  Thanks in advance, Lev
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