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Re: MX204 applications, (was about BGP RR design)


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:00:10 +0200



On 15/Feb/19 10:54, Phil Lavin wrote:

They are, however, not Trio - rather just commodity CPUs. Routing re-convergence times are shockingly high - in the 
region of 5-10 minutes for MX80 with a full table vs 30 seconds (ish) for 204

They are Trio.

It's the control plane which is not Intel... Freescale.


You can add switches (EX or QFX) as line cards using Fusion, to add more port density. I've heard some good things 
about Fusion, though I'm always wary of proprietary clustering technology having been bitten by VC a few times. You 
can also just trunk some VLANs up to switches if you don't want to buy the Fusion license

Nasty, but doable (with or without Fusion).

I'd prefer not to, but I'm getting old so my resolve could be questioned
:-).

Mark.


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