[j-nsp] configure MAC address on MX logical unit?

[Colin House]

On 7/03/2012 10:53 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

>
> interface ae0 {
>    unit 40 {
>      family inet {
>        address ...;
>      }
>    }
>    unit 50 {
>      mac-address 02:02:02:04:04:04; /* different MAC for this unit */
>      family inet {
>        address ...;
>      }
>    }
> }
>

This worked fine for me in 9.3/9.4..

>
> I have tried tricking the router into doing this using VRRP, but I need to
> establish an eBGP session from this unit 50, and the router still transmits
> the BGP session packets with the hardware MAC address, not the VRRP address.

VRRP is a different case.  It uses 00-00-5E-00-01-XX where XX = your 
group ID, not the physical MAC.  I couldn't find a way to achieve this 
functionality when I was looking for it ~3 years ago.

HTH,
Colin