[j-nsp] Ingress QoS Marking Now Fully Supported on MX Routers - Junos 14.2R3.8 Release

[Masood Ahmad Shah]

Thanks for sharing, Mark!
Are you sure that it supports all Trio-bsaed cards and afterwards...
Juniper documentation confirm it for the Type-5 FPC (T4K) only though.

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Gosh, what a road this has been!
>
> Some of you may recall I started moaning and chasing Juniper about this
> way back in 2008. Well, finally, we have reached the promised land.
>
> Junos 14.2R3.8 for the MX was released last night. Prior to its release,
> we have been testing an engineering version of 14.2R1, where Juniper
> developed support for ingress marking/re-marking of QoS values on
> traffic entering an MX router.
>
> As you know, Juniper have traditionally done marking/re-marking on
> egress, which did not provide sufficient granularity for us, and I am
> sure several others on this list. With 14.2R3.8, Juniper now support
> ingress marking/re-marking of QoS values, negating the need for egress
> marking if what you're looking for is fine-grained marking/re-marking.
>
> Juniper are calling the feature Policy Map. I can get into more details
> of how this would work if anyone is interested, but below are some key
> features you might find useful:
>
>     a) Policy Map is currently supported only on the MX routers.
>     b) Requires a minimum of Trio-based line cards.
>     c) First shipping in Junos 14.2R3.8.
>     d) Supported for IPP, DSCP, MPLS EXP, 802.1p and 802.1ad.
>     e) Supported for the inet, inet6, ccc, vpls, mpls and any address
> families.
>     f) Application can be either via the [class-of-service] hierarchy or
> via a firewall filter.
>     g) Supersedes traditional Junos CoS Rewrite actions.
>
> You can find some basic details on the feature here:
>
>
>
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.2/information-products/topic-collections/release-notes/14.2/topic-83366.html#jd0e3370
>
> It's been a long time coming.
>
> I'm very pleased to see this feature, and hope the rest of you find it
> as useful as we do.
>
> Mark.
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