[j-nsp] port mirror to multiple ports on MX80 in inet6

[Alex Arseniev]

Have you tried PM instances?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Vlaar" <paul at vlaar.net>
To: "Alex Arseniev" <alex.arseniev at gmail.com>
Cc: <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] port mirror to multiple ports on MX80 in inet6


> Alex,
> 
> On 19/10/12 7:33 AM, Alex Arseniev wrote:
>> You could do cascaded PM. In a nutshell:
>> 1/ port-mirror original packet, send the original packet on its way
>> 2/ send the COPY into a loop (cable loop or looped tunnel)
>> 3/ take the looped COPY and mirror it once again, creating 2nd copy.
>> 4/ send 1st copy and 2nd copy on their respective ways.
> 
> The problem I see there is how do you configure the [ port-mirroring
> family inet6 ] section with a different output interface on the second
> run once you hit the port-mirror statement in the firewall rule.
> 
> forwarding-options {
>    port-mirroring {
>        family inet6 {
>            output {
>                interface ge-1/3/2.0 {
>                    next-hop fdb5:1281:f3cf:c7c4::2;
>                }
>                no-filter-check;
>            }
>        }
>    }
> }
> 
> Can you perhaps send me some example config on how to do this?
> 
> What strikes me is that the lack of next-hop-groups for inet6 feels like
> a software limitation.
> 
>   ~paul
> 
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