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Protocols and Applications Supported by the MPC3E on MX Series Routers

Table 1 lists the first supported Junos OS Release for MPC3E protocols and applications for the MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and MX2020 routers. The protocols and applications support feature parity with Junos OS Release 10.4.

Note:

The MX2010 and M2020 routers support protocols and applications in Junos OS 12.3 and later. Features added after the Junos OS 12.3 release are supported on the MX2010 and MX2020 routers in the release indicated.

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

Table 1: Protocols and Applications Supported by MPC3E Cards for MX Series Routers

Protocol or Application

First Supported Junos OS Release

MPC3E-3D

MPC3E–3D-NG

MPC3E–3D-NG-Q

Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP)

14.1R4

14.1R4

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection protocol (BFD)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Bridge protocol data units (BPDUs)

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

BGP/MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Class of service (CoS):

  • Maintain CoS across internal tunnel interfaces

  • Packet rewrites

  • Rate limit option for per-port queues

  • Configurable 802.1p inheritance: push and swap from the hidden tag

  • Configurable shaping overhead for scheduling

  • Behavior aggregate (BA) classification

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

  • BA DSCP classification of MPLS packets for L3VPN/VPLS LSI and MPLS interfaces

  • BA DSCP classification for VPLS/CCC family

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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)

Note:

Fine-grained queuing and input queuing are not supported for the MPC3E-3D.

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

  • Accounting, filtering, and policing

  • IEEE 802.1p rewrite

  • Classification

  • Tricolor marking

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

  • Tricolor marking

  • Shaping at the queue level

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

  • Weighted random early detection (WRED)

14.1R4

14.1R4

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

DVMRP and GRE support—access side and server side

14.1R4

14.1R4

Dynamic Power Management

15.1

15.1

15.1

Push a tag on Ethernet VPLS and Ethernet CCC tag encapsulations

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Enhanced subscriber management

15.1R4

15.1R4

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching with multiple G.8032 instances

14.1R4

14.1R4

Flexible Queuing Mode

Note:

Flexible queuing mode is supported only on non-HQoS variants.

15.1

15.1

15.1

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Continuity Check protocol

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Linktrace protocol

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Loopback protocol

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

IEEE 802.1ag Maintenance Association Intermediate Point (MIP) support, continuity check message (CCM), stacked VLAN tagging, trunk ports, support for VPLS/VPWS, VLAN circuit cross-connect (CCC) encapsulation and translational cross-connect (TCC) encapsulation

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Firewall filters and policers:

  • Policer support for aggregated Ethernet

  • Aggregate firewall-based policer for all families of a logical interface

  • Intelligent hierarchial policers

    Note:

    Intelligent hierarchial policers are supported from Junos OS Release 13.3.

  • Set forwarding class and loss priority for Routing Engine-generated packets by using a firewall

  • Physical interface policers, applying policers to the entire port

  • Lower policer limit from 32K to 8K

  • Egress IEEE 802.1p multi-field (MF) and BA classification for VPLS

  • Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) rewrite for IPv4 and IPv6

Note:

The packet length used for the policer included in the Layer 2 header is not supported for the MPC3E-3D in release 12.2.

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Flexible Ethernet encapsulation

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels or Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) (IP-in-IP) tunnels

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Graceful Routing Engine Switchover (GRES)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS)

14.1R4

14.1R4

IGMP snooping with bridging, IRB, and VPLS

14.1R4

14.1R4

IGMPv3 support with snooping disabled

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

  • Group of virtual LANs (VLANs) level

  • VLAN level

  • Port level

14.1R4

14.1R4

Inline flow monitoring

12.3R1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Intelligent Oversubscription on MIC and MPC Interfaces Overview

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Unified In-service software upgrade (Unified ISSU).

Note:

ISSU is not supported on MPC3E-NG with 14.1R4.

13.3

17.1R1

17.1R1

Interoperability with MPCs and existing DPCs

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Interoperability with multiservices DPCs

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv4

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv4 multicast

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv6

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv6 MLD

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv6 multicast

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

IS-IS

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

14.1R4

14.1R4

Flow monitoring and services:

  • Active monitoring (multiple v8 version j-flow templates)

  • Active monitoring (cflowed version 9 templates)

  • Port mirroring family VPLS, bridge CCC encapsulation (VPWS)

  • Packet slice for port mirroring

  • Inline flow monitoring on MPC3E

  • Flow monitoring on multiservices DPCs

Note:

Flow monitoring on Multiservices DPCs and Inline flow monitoring on MPC3E are not supported for the MPC3E-3D in release 12.2.

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Layer 2 features:

  • Trunk ports

  • Layer 2 support for MX Series Virtual Chassis

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

  • IEEE 802.1ad provider bridges

  • Layer 2 protocol tunneling (L2PT) support

  • Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)

  • Multi-chassis LAG—active/active and active/standby

  • Multi-chassis LAG—active/active with IGMP snooping

  • Link aggregation group (LAG)—VLAN-CCC encapsulation

Note:

LAG features and IGMP snooping with bridging, IRB, and VPLS are not supported for the MPC3E-3D in release 12.2.

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Layer 2 VPN interfaces support VLAN ID list

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

14.1R4

14.1R4

Local loopback

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

MAC learning, policing, accounting, and filtering

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Mobile IP

14.1R4

14.1R4

Multichassis link aggregation

14.1R4

14.1R4

Multiple Tag Protocol Identifiers (TPIDs)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

MPLS:

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

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

  • RSVP graceful restart interoperability with Cisco using Nodal Hello

  • Failure action on BFD session down of RSVP LSPs

  • OSPF and IS-IS loop-free alternates (LFA)

  • 4/5 label MPLS operation

  • Virtual circuit connectivity verification (VCCV) BFD

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

  • MPLS-FRR bypass link protection

  • Load sharing across 64 ECMP next hops

  • MPLS-FRR VPLS instance prioritization

  • Five label stack on ingress

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

mvrp

14.1R4

14.1R4

Multitopology routing

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Nonstop active routing (NSR)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

OSPF

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Packet mirroring

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE 1588)

12.2

17.2R1

17.2R1

IEEE 802.1ah Provider Bridging (PBB)

14.1R4

14.1R4

RSVP

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

RIP

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

SNMP

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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)

  • Spanning-Tree Protocols (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)

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Subscriber management and services (MX2010, MX2020: 12.3R4, 13.2R2, 13.3):

  • Aggregated Ethernet over static VLANs

  • Aggregated Ethernet over dynamic VLANs

  • ANCP and the ANCP Agent Overview

  • DHCP access model

  • Dynamic adjustment of shapers

  • Dynamic PPPoE subscriber interface creation based on PPPoE service name tables

  • Dynamic profiles

  • Dynamic shaping, scheduling, and queuing

  • Dynamic VLANs

  • Per unit scheduling

  • Static and dynamic PPPoE subscriber interfaces

14.1R4

14.1R4

Synchronous Ethernet

13.2

14.1R4

14.1R4

Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)

14.1R4

14.1R4

Tunnel services

  • Clear DF-Bit (Don't Fragment Bit)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Unified in-service software upgrade (ISSU)

Note:

ISSU is not supported on MPC3E-NG with 14.1R4.

13.3

17.1R1

17.1R1

Unnumbered Ethernet Interface

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

VLANs IEEE 802.1Q:

  • VLAN stacking and rewriting

  • Channels defined by two stacked VLAN tags

  • Flexible VLAN tagging

  • IP service for nonstandard TPID and stacked VLAN tags

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

13.2R1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Virtual private network (VPN)

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4

12.1

14.1R4

14.1R4

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

14.1R4

14.1R4

WAN-PHY mode

12.2

14.1R4

14.1R4