[j-nsp] How does internal communication between vMX virtual control plane and virtual forwarding plane work?

[Martin T]

Hi!

When I deploy a vMX using orchestration scripts, then I end up with
following virtualized topology:

https://i.imgur.com/bBTXGM0.png

Now when I execute "file copy root at 192.168.122.1:/tmp/1G_file
/dev/zero" in vMX, then I can see that traffic traverses
virbr0[ge-0.0.0-vmx1] <-> [ge-0/0/0]vcp-vmx1[em1] <->
[vcp-int-vmx1]br-int-vmx1[vfp-int-vmx1] <-> [int]vfp-vmx1. Am I
misunderstaning this? Or does it really work in a way that first the
VM running Junos receives the traffic, then forwards it to VM running
virtualized Trio and then the traffic is forwarded back to Junos VM?


thanks,
Martin