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

[Jason Lixfeld]

I didn’t.  We ultimately didn’t use Juniper for this.

> On Apr 16, 2021, at 4:32 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jason,
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> Did you ever get any feedback or implement this on the QFX's? 
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> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:00 PM Jason Lixfeld <jason-jnsp at lixfeld.ca <mailto: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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> These boxes would participate in an LDP based MPLS network, pinned up with BFD’d IS-IS, and protected with rLFA.
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> [1] https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/mpls-features-qfx-series-overview.html <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 <https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/general/mpls-limitations-qfx-series.html>
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