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Protocols and Applications Supported by the MPC10E

Table 1 contains protocols and applications supported by the MPC10E line cards (MPC10E-15C-MRATE and MPC10E-10C-MRATE) on the MX240, MX480, and MX960 routers.

A dash indicates that the protocol or application is not supported.

Table 1: Protocols and Applications Supported by MPC10E line cards in the MX240, MX480, and MX960 Routers

Protocol or Application

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-15C-MRATE

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-10C-MRATE

Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP)

-

-

Accepts traffic destined for generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels

Release

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.1R1

Release

  • -

  • 19.2R1

Accepts traffic destined for Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) (IP-in-IP) tunnels

-

-

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection protocol (BFD)

  • Centralized BFD

  • Distributed BFD

  • Inline BFD (single-hop only)

  • Single-hop BFD

  • Multihop BFD

  • Micro BFD

  • BFD over Integrated routing and bridging (IRB) interfaces

  • BFD over Pseudowire over LT and RLT interfaces

  • Virtual circuit connectivity verification (VCCV) BFD for Layer2 VPNs and Layer2 circuits

  • VCCV BFD for VPLS

  • BFD authentication

  • Seamless BFD

Release

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.1R1S1

  • 19.1R1S1

  • 19.1R1S1

  • 19.1R1S1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • -

  • -

  • -

Release

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • -

  • -

  • -

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and ICMPv6

19.1R1

19.2R1

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Bridge protocol data units (BPDUs)

-

-

BGP/MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Routing Instance:

  • Logical system

  • Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Load Balancing

19.1R1

19.2R1

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

-

-

Maintain CoS across internal tunnel interfaces

19.1R1

19.2R1

Packet Rewrites on DSCP, Inet Precedence (both Ipv4 and IPv6) and EXP bits

19.1R1

19.2R1

Behavior aggregate (BA) classification (except IEEE classifiers)

19.1R1

19.2R1

BA classification based on 802.1p of payload for core-facing VPLS interfaces

19.4R1

19.4R1

BA DSCP classification of MPLS packets for L3VPN and MPLS interfaces

19.1R1

19.2R1

BA DSCP classification of MPLS packets for VPLS LSI interfaces

-

-

BA DSCP classification for VPLS/CCC family

19.4R1

19.4R1

Rate limit option for per-port queues

19.1R1

19.2R1

Queue depth monitoring

19.3R1

19.3R1

Configurable .1p inheritance: push and swap from the hidden tag

20.4R1

20.4R1

Configurable shaping overhead for scheduling

19.1R1

19.2R1

Class of service (CoS) per port:

  • Eight queues per port

  • Excess-rate and excess-priority configurations at the queue level

  • Shaping at the port level

  • Shaping at the queue level

  • Scheduling of queues based on the weighted round-robin (WRR) per excess-priority class

  • Round-robin scheduling of the queues per priority class

  • Weighted random early detection (WRED)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Class of service (CoS) per virtual LAN (VLAN):

  • Accounting, filtering, and policing

  • IEEE 802.1p rewrite

  • IEEE 802.1p classification

Release

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.4R1 (except for circuit cross connect or CCC)

  • 19.4R1 (except for circuit cross connect or CCC)

Release

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.4R1 (except for circuit cross connect or CCC)

  • 19.4R1 (except for circuit cross connect or CCC)

Class of service (CoS) per Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) subscriber interfaces:

  • Accounting, filtering, and policing

  • IEEE 802.1p rewrite

  • Classification

  • Excess-rate and excess-priority configuration at the queue level

  • Shaping at the queue level

  • Scheduling of queues based on weighted round-robin (WRR) per priority class

  • Weighted random early detection (WRED)

Release

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

Release

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

  • -

Ingress and egress hierarchical class-of-service (CoS) shaping and hierarchical-scheduler:

Note:

Only egress is supported.

  • Group of virtual LANs (VLANs) level

  • VLAN level

  • Port level

-

-

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

19.1R1

19.2R1

DVMRP and GRE support—access side and server side

-

-

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching with multiple G.8032 instances

-

-

Flexible Queuing Mode

-

-

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Continuity Check protocol

-

-

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Linktrace protocol

-

-

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Loopback protocol

-

-

IEEE 802.1ag:

  • Maintenance association intermediate point (MIP)

  • Continuity check message (CCM)

  • Stacked VLAN tagging

  • Trunk ports

  • VPLS

  • VPWS

  • VLAN circuit cross-connect (CCC) encapsulation and

  • Translational cross-connect (TCC) encapsulation

Release

  • -

  • -

  • 19.1R1

  • -

  • -

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.1R1

  • -

Release

  • -

  • -

  • 19.2R1

  • -

  • -

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • -

IEEE 802.1ag optional type, length, and value (TLVs) support Configuring Port Status TLV and Interface Status TLV

19.1R1

19.2R1

IEEE 802.3ah distributed periodic packet management (PPM) process, alarm indication signal (AIS), and remote defect indication (RDI)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Family Inet/Inet6/MPLS

19.1R1

19.2R1

All the static match conditions/actions

19.1R1

19.2R1

Dynamic actions (port-mirroring, next hop, routing instance)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Interface-specific filters

19.1R1

19.2R1

BGP Flow specification

19.1R1

19.2R1

Two color and three color policers (SRTCM and TRTCM)

19.1R1

19.2R1

FTF (filter attachment on routing table)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Firewall attachment on Aggregated Ethernet Interfaces (AE)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Hierarchical Policers

19.4R1

19.4R1

Family Any/CCC (for firewall)

19.2R1

19.2R1

Percentage Bandwidth policers, Shared Bandwidth policers, Logical Interface policers

19.4R1

19.4R1

Physical interface policers

19.4R1

19.4R1

Firewall Based GRE ENCAP/DECAP

19.2R1

19.2R1

Fast lookup filter

19.2R1

19.2R1

Jvision (firewall filter counters only)

19.2R1

19.2R1

Filter-based tunneling:

  • GRE-in-UDP encapsulation and decapsulation

  • MPLS-over-UDP decapsulation

19.3R1

19.3R1

Filter-based forwarding:

  • Next-IP

  • Next-interface

19.3R1

19.3R1

Interface-group

19.3R1

19.3R1

Family bridge filter

19.3R1

19.3R1

VPLS family filter

19.3R1

19.3R1

Filter attachment on IRB, Pseudowire over LT and RLT interfaces, and bridge-domain

19.3R1

19.3R1

Flexible Ethernet encapsulation

19.1R1

19.2R1

Graceful Routing Engine Switchover (GRES)

19.1R1

19.2R1

IGMPv3 support with snooping disabled

19.1R1

19.2R1

Intelligent Oversubscription on MIC and MPC Interfaces Overview

19.1R1

19.2R1

Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)

19.4R1

19.4R1

Unified In-service software upgrade (Unified ISSU)

23.1R1

23.1R1

Interoperability with MPCs

19.1R1

19.2R1

Interoperability with MS-MPC/MS-MICs

20.2R1

20.2R1

Interoperability with MX Series Flexible PIC Concentrators (MX-FPC)

-

-

IPv4

19.1R1

19.2R1

IPv4 multicast

  • PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM)

  • PIM source-specific multicast (PIM-SSM)

  • Point to multipoint (P2MP)

  • Multicast-only fast reroute (MoFRR)

  • Draft-rosen MVPN

Release

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

Release

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

IPv6

19.1R1

19.2R1

IPv6 MLD

19.1R1

19.2R1

IPv6 multicast

  • PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM)

  • PIM source-specific multicast (PIM-SSM)

  • Point to multipoint (P2MP)

  • Multicast-only fast reroute (MoFRR)

  • Draft-rosen MVPN

Release

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.1R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

Release

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.2R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

  • 19.3R1

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

19.1R1

19.2R1

IS-IS

19.1R1

19.2R1

ITU-T Y.1731 timestamping support on MX Series routers

-

-

Switching of pseudowire segments (multisegment pseudowires with BGP-L2VPN)

19.1R1

19.2R1

LDP signaling for VPLS (LDP-VPLS) and MAC flush message processing (MAC-FLUSH-TLV)

19.4R1

19.4R1

RSVP graceful restart interoperability with Cisco using Nodal Hello

-

-

Failure action on BFD session down of RSVP LSPs

19.3R1

19.3R1

OSPF loop-free alternates (LFA)

20.2R1

20.2R1

4/5 label MPLS operation

19.1R1

19.2R1

Virtual circuit connectivity verification (VCCV) BFD

19.3R1

19.3R1

Point to multipoint using the enhanced-ip command (support for NG-MVPN and P2MP load balancing over aggregated Ethernet)

19.4R1

-

MPLS-FRR bypass link protection

19.1R1

19.2R1

Load sharing across 64 ECMP next hops

19.1R1

19.2R1

MPLS-FRR VPLS instance prioritization

-

-

Five label stack on ingress

19.1R1

19.2R1

MPLS node protection, link protection, and statistics for static LSPs

19.1R1

19.2R1

mvrp

-

-

Multitopology routing

-

-

Nonstop active routing (NSR)

19.1R1

19.2R1

OSPF

19.1R1

19.2R1

Packet mirroring

19.1R1

19.2R1

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE 1588)

19.1R1

19.2R1

IEEE 802.1ah provider backbone bridging (PBB)

-

-

Push a tag on Ethernet VPLS and Ethernet CCC tag encapsulations

-

-

RSVP Overview

19.1R1

19.2R1

RIP

19.1R1

19.2R1

SNMP

19.1R1

19.2R1

Spanning Tree Protocols:

  • IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (part of IEEE 802.1Q VLANs)

  • IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

  • IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

  • Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)

  • Bridge protocol data units (BPDUs) guard and loop guard

  • STP inter-protocol action profiles and MAC flush (in VPLS multi-homing, flush all MACs when there is a change in the STP interface state due to root protect)

-

-

Subscriber Management and Services

Subscriber Management and Services: Enhanced subscriber management—Uplink communications to the core network only

19.3R1

19.3R1

Subscriber Management and Services: Enhanced subscriber management—

  • Basic and advanced class of service (CoS) and filters (IPv4 or dual stack) support for:

    • DVLAN with DHCP subscribers

    • DVLAN with Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) subscribers

    • DVLAN and agent circuit identifier (ACI) with DHCP subscribers

    • DVLAN and ACI with PPP subscribers

    • Stacked DVLAN with DHCP subscribers

    • Stacked DVLAN with PPP subscribers

    • Pseudowire DVLAN with DHCP subscribers

    • Pseudowire DVLAN with PPP subscribers

  • DVLAN with LAC (IPv4) basic and advanced CoS and filters

  • DVLAN with LAC (IPv4) basic and advanced CoS and filters

  • DVLAN with LNS (IPv4 and dual stack) basic CoS and filters

  • Advanced CoS and filters (IPv4 or dual stack) support for:

    • IFLSET with DHCP subscribers

    • IFLSET with PPP subscribers

  • L2TP tunnels (configured for each line card and each chassis)

  • Subscriber services (customer solutions test scripts) processing

  • Scaling and performance for the following features:

    • DHCP subscribers with authenticated dynamic VLAN

    • DHCP subscribers with authenticated dynamic S-VLAN

    • LNS subscribers

    • LAC subscribers

    • CoS service

    • Firewall service

22.4R1

22.4R1

Synchronous Ethernet

19.2R1

19.2R1

Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)

19.2R1

19.2R1

Tunnel services

  • Clear DF-Bit (Don't Fragment Bit)

19.3R1

19.3R1

Unified in-service software upgrade (ISSU)

-

-

Unnumbered Ethernet Interface

19.3R1

19.3R1

VLANs IEEE 802.1Q:

  • VLAN stacking and rewriting

  • Flexible VLAN tagging

  • Single VLAN tags

  • Dual VLAN tags

  • IP service for nonstandard TPID and stacked VLAN tags

19.1R1

19.2R1

Virtual Chassis: MPLS IPv4 and IPv6, unicast, multicast forwarding, VPLS, NSR for Layer 3/MPLS services

-

-

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS):

  • BGP multihoming for inter-AS VPLS

  • Gigabit Ethernet as core-facing interface

  • Configurable label block sizes

  • Hashing L3/L4 fields under Ethernet pseudowire for VPLS encapsulation, CCC encapsulation, and MPLS encapsulation

  • VPLS flood forwarding table filter (FTF), input FTF

  • Broadcast, unicast unknown, and multicast (BUM) traffic hashing over LAG

20.1R1 (Broadcast, unicast unknown, and multicast (BUM) traffic hashing over LAG)

20.1R1 (Broadcast, unicast unknown, and multicast (BUM) traffic hashing over LAG)

Virtual private network (VPN)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Support for the following features in hyper-mode:

  • Configuring ICMP redirects and generating ICMP redirect messages.

  • Padding VLAN packets to a minimum frame size of 68 bytes, by using the existing command set interfaces interface-name gigether-options pad-to-minimum-frame-size.

  • Collecting interface family statistics for IPv4 and IPv6, by using the existing command show interfaces statistics detail interface-name.

19.2R1

19.2R1

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4 and IPv6

19.3R2

19.3R2

VPLS packet flooding to the right set of interfaces across mesh groups

-

-

WAN-PHY mode

19.1R1

19.2R1

Flow monitoring and services

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-15C-MRATE

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-10C-MRATE

Inline IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Inline flow monitoring for MPLS, MPLS-IPv4 and MPLS-IPv6 traffic (IPFIX and V9 formats)

19.3R1

19.3R1

Inline flow monitoring for IPv4 or IPv6 traffic on next-hop based GRE Tunnels and ps interfaces

19.3R1

19.3R1

Port mirroring for family bridge CCC encapsulation

19.3R1

19.3R1

Port mirroring with analyzer instance [edit forwarding-options analyzer]

-

-

Port mirroring for VPLS

19.4R1

19.4R1

Packet slice for port mirroring

-

-

Labeled-switched-paths (LSPs) including accounting, policers, and filtering

19.1R1

19.2R1

Minimum LDP Configuration

19.1R1

19.2R1

Routing Engine-Based Sampling - -

MACSec

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-15C-MRATE

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-10C-MRATE

GCM-AES-128 MACSec Encryption, 802.1AE-2006

19.1R1

19.2R1

GCM-AES-256 MACSec Encryption, 802.1AEbn-2011

19.1R1

19.2R1

Mobile IP

-

-

Multichassis link aggregation

-

-

Multiple Tag Protocol Identifiers (TPIDs)

19.1R1

19.2R1

Layer 2 Features

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-15C-MRATE

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC10E-10C-MRATE

Trunk ports

19.2R1

19.2R1

Layer 2 support for MX Series Virtual Chassis

19.2R1

19.2R1

Layer 2 and Layer 2.5, IRB and Spanning Tree Protocols (xSTP)

19.3R1

19.3R1

IEEE 802.1ad provider bridges

19.3R1

19.3R1

L2TP silent failover and peer interface

19.3R1

19.3R1

Multichassis LAG—active/active and active/standby

-

-

Multichassis LAG—active/active with IGMP snooping

-

-

Link aggregation group (LAG)—VLAN-CCC encapsulation

19.3R1

19.3R1

IGMP snooping with bridging, IRB, and VPLS

19.3R1

19.3R1

Layer 2 VPN interfaces support VLAN ID list

19.3R1

19.3R1

Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)

19.3R1

19.3R1

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

19.2R1

19.2R1

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

19.3R1

19.3R1

Local loopback

19.3R1

19.3R1

MAC learning, policing, accounting, and filtering

19.3R1

19.3R1

MPLS

Features supported in Junos OS Release for MPC10E-15C-MRATE

Features supported in Junos OS Release for MPC10E-10C-MRATE

End-to-end LSP MPLS ping

20.2R1

20.2R1

LDP pseudowire auto-sensing

20.2R1

20.2R1

LSP ping for circuit cross-connect (CCC) and CCC secondary standby LSP

20.2R1

20.2R1

Edge node failure protection of LDP-signaled pseudowire

20.2R1

20.2R1

Link and node protection for static LSPs

20.2R1

20.2R1

Support of statistics for static LSPs

20.2R1

20.2R1

Stitching of pseudowire segments (multisegment pseudowires with BGP Layer 2 VPN)

20.2R1

20.2R1

Cross-connect logical interface to two unsignaled virtual circuits terminating on different egress Provider Edge (PE) devices

20.2R1

20.2R1

Generic Associated Channel Label (GAL) and Generic Associated Channel Header (G-Ach) and application to BFD or LSP ping

20.2R1

20.2R1

Remote loop-free alternates (LFA) over LDP tunnels in IS-IS networks.

19.1R1

19.1R1

Ultimate hop popping (UHP) support for LSPs

20.2R1

20.2R1

GMPLS co-routed packet LSPs

20.2R1

20.2R1

LDP downstream-on-demand

20.2R1

20.2R1

Seamless Multicast MPLS: intSegmented P2P and P2MP LSPs with MVPN interworking

20.2R1

20.2R1

PS Interface support for PW Redundancy Condition

20.2R1

20.2R1