Re: MX204 Virtual Chassis Setup

[Aaron1 <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

No VC here, unsure if it works, but yeah, we like them and deploy them in pairs for metro-e (ce) and cbh for vlans 
carried over mpls pw

Reliable for us


Aaron

> On Aug 25, 2023, at 4:40 PM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
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> > On 8/25/23 19:16, Tom Beecher wrote:
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> > In my experience and testing with them, you have a decent bit of headroom past the published RIB/FIB limits before 
> > they'll fall over.
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> They are holding up pretty well for us, mainly because we do a lot more BGP on MX480's than on MX204's. We use the 
> MX204's mainly for peering and CDN gateways. Where we use them for edge customers, it's a handful of BGP sessions.
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> On MX480 16GB RE's running two full BGP feeds but hundreds of customer sessions, Add-Paths really eats into RAM. 
> We've had to upgrade some of the busier routers from 16GB to 64GB RE's, especially on later versions of code where 
> ROV can also bite into memory on boxes carrying lots of BGP sessions.
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> Mark.