Networking, Troubleshooting, tips and tricks.
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During a complex case on Juniper platform, I looked for a tip to capture transit traffic on a MX960 with Trio cards. Indeed, I suspected a Junos box to rewrite transit mpls traffic with an unexpected exp value. As I love carry out reverse engineering,...
Lire la suiteA new short post today for network support technicians, engineers... One thing that you usualy check when you manage a case regarding service disruption is packet loss! The first step is to check if you have packet loss at physical layer due to framing...
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This post describes how multicast Next-Hop resolution and caching is done on Junos MX routers with Trio based cards. To have more information regarding the multicast replication see my previous post here : Multicast Replication. 1/ Introduction: PIM join...
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Troubleshooting Load-balancing is quite complex. Working on an operational team, I often need to know on which interface a given stream (IP or MPLS) will get out... Cisco IOX provides several cli commands to quickly compute and display the result of a...
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The configuration of the load balancing parameters is done at the forwarding-option level. There are 2 parts, each one is related to a type of hardware: - hash-key : for Ichip based platforms on MX or T series FPC - enhanced-hash-key : for Trio based...
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A simple op script, just for fun. Next blog post will be more serious :) FOR TERMINAL : 24 Rows / 80 Columns / font: Courrier New 10 The video can see here : The 'op' script is called lovejunos.slax. It has been tested with release 11.4. You can simply...
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I try to explain load balancing on MX. This post does not cover all the cases, but tries to summarize the default behaviour depending on the type of card: ICHIP or TRIO based, to provide which fields can be add or remove to compute the hash and finally...
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This post covers: - OAM implementation on Junos - Default value of OAM LFM parameter (in relation with the Part 1) - Configuration / understanding: Neighbor discovery phase - Configuration / understanding: Remote loopback operation - Configuration / understanding:...
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1/ Some terms, before: OAM for Operations Administration and Maintenance LFM for Link Fault Management EFM for Ethernet in the First Mile 2/ Introduction: OAM is intended for point-to-point or emulated p2p Ethernet links. The OAM block is optional, so...
Lire la suiteI've scheduled to write a post regarding Junos load balancing but I must carry out more tests before writing it. So I decided to post my code of a troubleshooting 'op' script which allows to display in one command all protocols related information of...
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