Re: interesting troubleshooting

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 12:53 AM Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:

> Hey Matthew,
>
> > There are *several* caveats to doing dynamic monitoring and remapping of
> > flows; one of the biggest challenges is that it puts extra demands on the
> > line cards tracking the flows, especially as the number of flows rises to
> > large values.  I recommend reading
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/load-balancing-aggregated-ethernet-interfaces.html#id-understanding-aggregated-ethernet-load-balancing
> > before configuring it.
>
> You are confusing two features. Stateful and adaptive. I was proposing
> adaptive, which just remaps the table, which is free, it is not flow
> aware. Amount of flow results is very small bound number, amount of
> states is very large unbound number.

Ah, apologies--you are right, I scanned down the linked document too
quickly,
thinking it was a single set of configuration notes.

Thanks for setting me straight on that.

Matt


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