Mark, > On 14 Jul 2020, at 06:52, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14/Jul/20 04:28, Phil Bedard wrote: >> The PTX 5000 was the original PTX. The 1st/2nd generation FPCs didn't have >> much FIB capacity, like 128k routes which was well below an Internet table >> in 2014. The 3rd gen is where they started supporting up to 1M+ v4 prefixes. > > Yes, this is what I remember also. But if you look at the PTX1000, you > don't have that problem from when it went into inception. > > Granted, one could say Juniper made the assumption that most MPLS-based > networks would run a BGP-free core, and in theory, there were right.
That’s right. That’s also why I didn’t want to claim Juniper was stupid with the product, more into direction that such naive approach simply didn’t work out. > What they didn't account was that 6PE was one of those "temporary > becomes permanent" situations. OTOH, that’s still the vision we’re trying to catch up with, right? Have one, simple and easy to provision/monitor/troubleshoot/traffic engineer/decomission protocol, that carries all address families, has unified architecture and universal interoperability “because of that”. So, about OpenFlow… ;) — ./ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
