[j-nsp] cheapest juniper router capable of lsys

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 28 juin 2017 09:56 +1000, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw+j-nsp at gmail.com> :

>> The downside of the vMX for experimentation is that it is very CPU
>> hungry. The dataplane VMs are using a busy loop to catch packets and
>> they will use 100% of the CPU you allocate to them. They also need a lot
>> of memory.
>
> For vMX, there is a "lite" flavour of the PFE image that uses DPDK in
> interrupt mode instead of poll mode.
>
> See:
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vmx15.1f6/topics/task/configuration/vmx-chassis-flow-caching-enabling.html

Good to know!

Unfortunately, when switching to lite-mode, the vFPC restarts but still
uses 100% CPU. I'll try to update to a more recent version.
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