IP Features

The E Series router supports the following IP features:

• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• Traceroute
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)
• Maximum transmission unit (MTU)
• Support for simultaneous multiple logical IP stacks on the same router
• Flexible IP address assignment to support any portion of a physical interface (for example, a channel or circuit), exactly one physical interface, or multilink PPP interfaces
• Packet segmentation and reassembly
• Loose source routing to specify the IP route
• Strict source routing to specify the IP route for each hop
• Record route to track the route taken
• Internet timestamp
• Broadcast addressing, both limited broadcast and directed broadcast
• Support for 32,000 discrete, simultaneous IP interfaces per router to support thousands of logical connections
• Capability of detecting and reporting changes in the up or down state of any IP interface
• IP policy support. See JunosE IP Services Configuration Guide, for more information about policy configuration.
• Indirect next hops
• IP tunnel routing tables