Re: MX204 tunnel services BW

[Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 22:49, <behrnsjeff () yahoo com> wrote:

> JTAC says we must disable a physical port to allocate BW for tunnel-services.  Also leaving tunnel-services bandwidth 
> unspecified is not possible on the 204.  I haven't independently tested / validated in lab yet, but this is what they 
> have told me.  I advised JTAC to update the MX204 "port-checker" tool with a tunnel-services knob to make this caveat 
> more apparent.

Did they explain why you need to disable the physical port? I'd love
to hear that explanation.

The MX204 is single Trio EA, so you can't even waste serdes sending
the packet to remote PFE after first lookup, it would only bounce
between local XM/MQ and LU/XL, wasting that serdes.

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