[j-nsp] Router with lots of layer 3 interfaces

Pavel Lunin plunin at senetsy.ru
Tue Mar 8 17:23:33 EST 2011


My question with that setup is: how many VRRP instances can I have on an
> SRX?
>

VRRP does not scale well on any platform because of the protocol limitation
and due to CPU-intensive hellos. Max number of groups is 256. Although
theoretically this limit is a concern only in case of a single broadcast
domain, you just can not configure more than 256 groups in JUNOS. If you use
fast-interval it will be much lower (few tens of groups).


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