[j-nsp] Experiences with QFX5110/QFX5120 (martini l2circuit w/tag manipulation)

[Colton Conor]

Jason,

Did you ever get any feedback or implement this on the QFX's?

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:00 PM Jason Lixfeld <jason-jnsp at lixfeld.ca> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> I’m starting to test martini l2circuits on a QFX5110 (17.3R3-S4.2).  I’m
> looking at possibly using these boxes, or QFX5120s on a larger scale to
> terminate these types of circuits on other QFX’ or Cisco
> ME3600/ASR920/ASR9000.
>
> These l2circuits could be in either port-based mode or vlan-based mode (I
> believe the JunOS nomenclature is ethernet-ccc encap and vlan-ccc encap,
> respectively).
>
> The vlan-based use cases could include tag pop/push/swap on inner and/or
> outer tags of either 802.1ad and 802.1q encapsulated frames.
>
> These boxes would participate in an LDP based MPLS network, pinned up with
> BFD’d IS-IS, and protected with rLFA.
>
> I’ve reviewed MPLS feature support[1] and MPLS limitation[2] docs for the
> QFX platform, and nothing immediately jumps out from a features or
> limitations perspective, but I’d appreciate any real-world feedback on the
> good, bad, and ugly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> [1]
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/mpls-features-qfx-series-overview.html
> [2]
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/general/mpls-limitations-qfx-series.html
>
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