[j-nsp] MX960 JunOS recommendations

[Olof Kasselstrand]

You might have devices somewhere in your network that do not support a
MTU of 9000. If that is the case you set the MTU to the highest
supported MTU of any device to avoid problems.

// Olof

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Krzysztof Szarkowicz
<kszarkowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> JUNOS uses native IPv4 packets to send BGP messages. IOS uses IPv4 encapsulated in MPLS when LDP
> without tricks is enabled to send BGP messages.
>
> That are defaults, which can be changed of course.
>
> //Krzysztof
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kari Asheim [mailto:ka at mork.no]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 November, 2009 14:34
> To: Krzysztof Szarkowicz
> Cc: 'Tima Maryin'; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] MX960 JunOS recommendations
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:45:22PM +0100, Krzysztof Szarkowicz wrote:
>>
>> The most common cause of dropping is mismatch of MPLS MTU, or L2 device with misconfigured MTUs
>> somewhere in between.
>
> Are you sur you mean MPLS MTU?
>
> There is only one BGP session between a set of peers, even if you have
> several address families. I always thought this used a regular L3
> protocol like IP (could be exhanged with v6 in the future).
>
> Kari
>
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