[j-nsp] srx cluster - control and data link throuigh cisco

[William McLendon]

Do you have Jumbo Frames enabled on all paths between the two nodes?  There is a required frame MTU that must be supported across the network for connectivity through intermediate switches to work / be supported.  Also if i'm not mistaken by default the control plane traffic is tagged with VLAN 4090, however in later versions of code that default behavior may have changed, and I think the VLAN ID it uses is now configurable.

Thanks,

Will

On May 29, 2013, at 8:42 PM, juniper-nsp-request at puck.nether.net wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently trying to setup a cluster of srx3400 using a pair of cisco 
> nexus to connect
> control and data link for redundancy. Junos Version is 11.4r7.
> 
> Each SRX3400 uses one RE, one CRM, one SPC and one NPC.
> 
> The first node from the cluster is fine but the second node doesn't come 
> up correctly.
> 
> The "show chassis fpc pic" indicates that the slot 0, 5 and 6 (RE, NPC 
> and SPC) stay in testing state.
> 
> The same hardware works correctly when wworking outside of the cluster.
> 
> Badfully I can't remove the presumably faulty srx3400 from the rack to 
> plug it directly to the node0.
> 
> Did anyone manage to setup a cluster using nexus to connect control and 
> data link ?
> 
> I tried junos 12.1 but the cluster was not stable at all (jsrpd and 
> chassisd keeps crashing).
> 
> thanks.