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Huawei SmartAX MA5600T
Have collected data about Huawei MA5600T xPON equipment.
Will be useful for beginners. You can check it here.
Huawei s57xx series comparison table
After another painful search for the suitable model, i have finally made a summary table for the Huawei s5700 and s5720 series switches.
You can check it here – Huawei s57xx Guide
In the near future I will try to … Read more >>
Juniper NFX250 — VyOS setup, perfomance tests (Part 2)
- Enhanced orchestration and hugepages
- VyOS install
- Basic VyOS setup
- VyOS Setup and perfomance test(Virtio)
- VyOS Setup and perfomance test(SR-IOV)
In first part I did a general overview of the functionality and principles of operation of the NFX250, and also made … Read more >>
Juniper NFX250 — disassemble and initial setup (Part 1)
- How does the Juniper NFX250 works?
- Juniper NFX250 basic setup
- ASIC used in NFX250
- Is it possible to run BGP router on JCP ?
- NFX250 Performance tests
Recently I got Juniper NFX250 for tests, will disassemble it and figure out … Read more >>
How to configure Virtual chassis on Juniper QFX5100
Today we’ll talk about an alternative to MCLAG from Juniper – Virtual Chassis. With Virtual Chassis, you can control multiple devices as a single device, have multiple Routing Engines in the stack, and use the graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) … Read more >>
VPLS Configuration on Huawei switches
Today I will be discussing VPLS configuration (Virtual Private LAN Services) on Huawei switches in a multi-vendor environment. I will test VPLS between Huawei S6700, Extreme X670 and Juniper MX960.
Lab scheme:
We will use Martini VPLS with LDP signaling … Read more >>
Extreme Summit X670 CPU protection.
Today we will talk about the CPU protection from broadcast / multicast traffic on the Extreme X670 platform. These considerations are also correct for the X670V.
X670 family switches are built on the old Trident + and in comparison with … Read more >>
Juniper SNMP and Tacacs+ in routing-instance.
Recently, while setting up one more Juniper QFX5100 switch, i have run in to interesting case.
Since the switch was prepared as a classic TOR switch for IP fabric, it was necessary to place management to a routing-instance.
In Junos, … Read more >>
How to configure ERPS on Huawei S6700-48EI
Today we will discuss ERPS configuration on Huawei and Extreme Summit.
ERPS is a great alternative to STP / MSTP / RSTP,
It has sub 50ms convergence, easy to configure and is supported on most modern switches.
In this example, … Read more >>
How to configure bgp conditional advertisement on Juniper MX triggered by lost of route.
Consider an unusual case of bgp conditional advertisement triggered by lost of route.
Our task is:
Announce certain networks to backup uplink only if the default route from the main uplink is lost.
Both uplinks announce the default route – … Read more >>