Re: Juniper hardware recommendation

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

All sounds like a bit of Broadcom to me :-).

Mark.

On 5/16/21 14:56, Colton Conor wrote:
> Looks like its replacement is the 5120 series. The question is does 
> the 5120 have the same limitations and similar chipset?
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM Jason Healy 
> <jhealy () suffieldacademy org <mailto:jhealy () suffieldacademy org>> wrote:
>
>     To echo Alain's comments earlier, the Juniper QFX 5100 series is
>     stable, once you figure out all the shortcomings of the chipset. 
>     We aren't doing anything fancy, but have certainly bumped into our
>     share of issues that have no workaround because it's a limitation
>     of the physical hardware.  Since we're talking about counters, see
>     if you can spot the error with IPv6 accounting in the output from
>     our 5100 below (about 50% of our traffic is v6):
>
>         Transit statistics:
>          Input  bytes  :      284315487788005            412457312 bps
>          Output bytes  :       39937401090441             29417528 bps
>          Input  packets:         231391925059                39552 pps
>          Output packets:          88278182551                10809 pps
>          IPv6 transit statistics:
>           Input  bytes  :                   0
>           Output bytes  :                   0
>           Input  packets:                   0
>           Output packets:                   0
>
>
>     ;-)
>
>     I believe the 5100 just announced EOL
>     (https://support.juniper.net/support/eol/product/qfx_series/
>     <https://support.juniper.net/support/eol/product/qfx_series/>); I
>     haven't had time to look at the replacement models to see if they
>     behave any better.
>
>     Jason