[j-nsp] STM-4 and Gig LACP Connectivity between Juniper and Ciscogear

[Samit]

I just went through some older post which states that even AS-PIC  also
requires FPC-E. Does Multilink Services PIC also requires FPC-E PIC ?

Regards,
Samit


Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +0100, Jeff Tantsura wrote:
>> Hi Samit,
>>
>> No, LACP is supported on any ethernet (not sure about really old ones)
>> interfaces.
>> Any relatively new Catalist should support LACP as well, if you are going to
>> use SX optic on juniper, use SX on cisco as well :)
> 
> LACP is supported everywhere, but if you're doing to do LACP + 
> vlan-tagging on the AE you need at least an FPC-E. Original FPCs on 
> classic martini architecture (M5-M160) will do one or the other, but not 
> both simultaniously.
> 
> Also, my random tidbit of advice for the day... Don't configure native 
> vlan tagging on a Cisco and then try to speak LACP to a Juniper, it will 
> try to tag the LACP control packets with the native vlan ID and confuse 
> the hell out of the Juniper. :)
>