[j-nsp] Distributing OSPF load on MX80

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Thu Nov 29 14:13:22 EST 2012


On (2012-11-29 20:34 +0400), Pavel Lunin wrote:

> AFAIK, at least as of 11.something, BFD was handled by RE on MX80, not
> the host-CPU like it is on the big MXes. Looks like it's because the
> host-CPU on MX80 is quite less quick (marketing way of reading this is

I suppose host-CPU means PFE/LC CPU? MX80 has pq3 8544, MPC2 has pq3 8548.
MPC2 needs to talk to two trios, MX80 only one. So it does not feel like
MX80 PFE CPU is underpowered compared to big brothers.

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