[j-nsp] MX80 L2TP Functions

[Nahrux M]

Greetings,

Does JUNOS on Intel platform supports SMP (symmetrical multi processing)?

Regards



On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:13:41AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > Not "that" poor, it's a 1.2GHz PowerPC, which is roughly the performance
> > of a p4 3GHz. I haven't looked at it in detail yet, but I'd say odds are
> > good its the exact same integrated CPU/RE that is used on the EX8200 RE
> > (which is also the same cpu that is used on the original MX DPCs). On
> > the EX RE the ram and flash are not expandable, so you may be SOL there.
>
> Ok I have some details... The EX8200 RE is a Freescale e500v2 MPC8548
> 1.2GHz single core cpu, the MX80 RE uses an MPC8572 1.3GHz which is a
> dual core cpu. Note that this has no relationship to the old MX base
> level RE-1300, which was an Intel Celeron 1.3GHz.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerQUICC#PowerQUICC_III
>
> It looks like they're only using a single core currently, but color me
> hopeful that they'll enable the second core in a future software release
> (my guess is they don't have their ppc code fully supported or tested
> for SMP yet). When 10.2 came out I remember seeing a mention somewhere
> in the release notes about support for upcoming dual and quad core RE's
> (classic Intel it looked like), but I can't seem to find the reference
> now, so maybe they removed it. :)
>
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