Re: MX204 tunnel services BW

["Delong.com via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

Looks like the MX204 Is a bit of an odd duck in the MX series. It probably shares some hardware characteristics under 
the hood (even the MX80 (mostly, there was a variant that had pre-installed interfaces) had MIC slots).

The MX-204 appears to be an entirely fixed configuration chassis and looks from the literature like it is based on 
pre-trio chipset technology. Interesting that there are 100Gbe interfaces implemented with this seemingly older 
technology, but yes, looks like the PFE on the MX-204 has all the same restrictions as a DPC-based line card in other 
MX-series routers.

Owen



> On Oct 16, 2023, at 12:49, Jeff Behrns via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> 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.