[j-nsp] QFX5100 vs ACX5048

[Aaron Gould]

I don't upgrade software unless I have a good reason to...especially if my network is fairly stable and I know what I have.  

Aaron

> On Jul 4, 2018, at 9:31 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gustavo,
> 
> We you say " Another problem was upgrading to the lastest Junos JTAC recommended that made the ACX5048 unusable... ( Junos was unable to find the physical ports..)  We had to downgrade to get it back working again.." what version was this as JTAC recently changed their recommended version? It seem everyone on this thread is talking about software train  15.1X54.
> 
> However, the current JTAC recommended version is Junos 17.3R2 as of 14 May 2018. Why is everyone running  15.1X54 code?
> 
> Has anyone upgraded to  Junos 17.3R2 on the ACX's? No matter the model, all ACX's current recommended is now  Junos 17.3R2
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Gustavo Santos <gustkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had some issues with ACX5048 , the most noticable was arp packets from pure L2 vlans and VPLS punting to CPU and flooding the default arp policer police..
>> JTAC was able to reproduce the issue and gave us an option to disable default arp policer until they release a service release to fix this issue that was solved indeed.
>> 
>> Another problem was upgrading to the lastest Junos JTAC recommended that made the ACX5048 unusable... ( Junos was unable to find the physical ports..)  We had to downgrade to get it back working again..
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alexandre Guimaraes <alexandre.guimaraes at ascenty.com> wrote:
>>> Better in terms of concept. In term of usage, i still investing in qfx5100
>>> 
>>> Acx5058 Suppose to be a promise of a new future, unfortunately, with all problematic of the qfx5100 hardware, the acx5048 leak vlan till the last breath of cpu.... after that, all deamons and services going down.... up and down, up and down.
>>> 
>>> I never more brought one peace ACX5048 after jtac didnt responds why and solution for the leaking...( I have only two acx5048 and hundreds on QFX...).
>>> 
>>> The new promise is the new acx5448. No vlan leaking, a good load balance(ae) algorithm, full of this.... full of that.... a lot of promise.
>>> 
>>> Let’s see...
>>> 
>>> att
>>> Alexandre
>>> 
>>> Em 1 de jul de 2018, à(s) 19:31, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>> 
>>> > What is the main difference between these two boxes? Hardware wise they
>>> > look identical. Is there anything on the hardware side that makes the
>>> > ACX5048 better than a QFX5100, or is it only software related?
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