[j-nsp] EX 8200 deployment

[Felix Schueren]

Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Richard A Steenbergen
> 
>> Correct. I actually found some old gripes about this when I searched
>> j-nsp after noticing the problem, but it is a big enough issue that I
>> think it needs to be repeated again (and again and again, until it
>> gets fixed :P).
> 
> I'll be happy to join the choir on this one.  I reported the problem
> back in March 2009, got PR 435648 opened, but haven't heard anything
> more since then.
> 
> My workaround is to terminate the customer VLANs that needs counters
> for accounting purposes on the EX-es' upstream routers instead, which
> are MX-es with standard vlan-tagged family inet sub-interfaces.  That
> works well enough but it's not as tidy as I would have preferred.
> 
> Best regards,
chiming in here - we need to do the same, and we also ended up 
terminating L3 on our MXes when we'd really want to do it on the 8200s, 
yet the stupid messed up RVI counters don't allow us to do so.

Oh, there's more, btw. You can't do

vlan members [ 2-2999 ]
on a trunk port if you don't use ALL of those vlans. It won't commit, 
which means you have to use "vlan members all", which in turn messes up 
your one-interface-RVIs (that you have to use because you need to trunk 
some vlans on that port in addition to the family inet RVI)...

gah. Promising boxes, but they really messed up some points by looking 
to closely at how vendors B & C are doing it. That being said, we do use 
them in the data center, but they'd better get around fixing these things.

Kind regards,

Felix

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Felix Schüren
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