[j-nsp] Suggestions for Edge/Peering Router..

[Eric Van Tol]

On 9/19/19, 1:05 AM, "juniper-nsp on behalf of Phil Reilly" <juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of philr at jaspers.co.nz> wrote:

    MX104's are the dual brain unit of the 204. Though a 204 has 40/100G 
    capabilities. If I read your original request correctly about ip 
    routing. Not sure the 104/204 is grunty enough to deal with multiple 
    internet tables. Thats a demanding task these days best left to the 
    larger chassis.

The MX204 should work fine with multiple full table peers. The MX104 is the dual-RE version of the MX80 PPC-powered router. The MX204 is essentially an MPC7E, has a 64-bit Junos that runs the OS in a VM and has 16GB of RAM. MX204 is pretty powerful for what it is, which is a 1U router with 100G/40G/10G/1G capabilities, but you cannot use all ports simultaneously if you enable 100G or 40G. It's a bit convoluted, but it's explained here:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/port-speed-capability-mx204router.html

They offer a port-checker tool to verify configurations here:

https://apps.juniper.net/home/port-checker/index.html

-evt