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Protocols and Applications Supported by the MPC7E for MX Series Routers

Table 1 contains the first Junos OS Release support for protocols and applications on the MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and MX2020 MPC7Es (MPC7E-10G and MPC7E-MRATE). The protocols and applications support feature parity with Junos OS Release 15.1R1.

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

Table 1: Protocols and Applications Supported by MPC7Es in the MX240, MX480, MX960, MX2010, and MX2020 Routers

Protocol or Application

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC7E-MRATE

First Supported Junos OS Release for MPC7E-10G

Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP)

-

-

Accepts traffic destined for generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels or Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) (IP-in-IP) tunnels

15.1F4

15.1F5

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection protocol (BFD)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Bridge protocol data units (BPDUs)

15.1F4

15.1F5

BGP/MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Class of service (CoS):

  • Maintain CoS across internal tunnel interfaces

  • Packet rewrites

  • 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

  • Rate limit option for per-port queues

  • BA DSCP classification for VPLS/CCC family

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

  • Configurable shaping overhead for scheduling

15.1F4

15.1F5

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)

15.1F4

Note:

MPC7E-MRATE MPC supports 5 guaranteed and 4 excess priorities.

15.1F5

Note:

MPC7E-10G MPC supports 5 guaranteed and 4 excess priorities.

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

  • Accounting, filtering, and policing

  • IEEE 802.1p rewrite

  • Classification

  • Tricolor marking

15.1F4

15.1F5

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)

17.2R1

17.2R1

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

15.1F4

15.1F5

DVMRP and GRE support—access side and server side

15.1F4

15.1F5

Dynamic Power Management

15.1F4

15.1F5

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching with multiple G.8032 instances

15.1F4

15.1F5

Flexible Queuing Mode

15.1F4

15.1F5

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Continuity Check protocol

15.1F4

15.1F5

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Linktrace protocol

15.1F4

15.1F5

IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet OAM Loopback protocol

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

Firewall filters and policers:

  • Policer support for aggregated Ethernet

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

  • Intelligent hierarchial policers

  • 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 .1p MF and BA classification for VPLS

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

15.1F4

Note:

Layer 2 overhead adjustment (packet length used for the policer included in the Layer 2 header) is not supported in 15.1F4.

15.1F5

Note:

Layer 2 overhead adjustment (packet length used for the policer included in the Layer 2 header) is not supported in 15.1F5.

Flexible Ethernet encapsulation

15.1F4

15.1F5

Graceful Routing Engine Switchover (GRES)

15.1F4

15.1F5

IGMPv3 support with snooping disabled

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

  • Group of virtual LANs (VLANs) level

  • VLAN level

  • Port level

15.1F4

15.1F5

Inline flow monitoring

15.1F4

15.1F5

Intelligent Oversubscription on MIC and MPC Interfaces Overview

15.1F4

15.1F5

Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Unified In-service software upgrade (Unified ISSU)

17.4R1

17.4R1

Interoperability with MPCs

15.1F4

15.1F5

Interoperability with MS-DPCs

-

-

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

-

-

IPv4

15.1F4

15.1F5

IPv4 multicast

15.1F4

15.1F5

IPv6

15.1F4

15.1F5

IPv6 MLD

15.1F4

15.1F5

IPv6 multicast

15.1F4

15.1F5

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

15.1F4

15.1F5

IS-IS

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

Minimum LDP Configuration

15.1F4

15.1F5

Layer 2 VPN interfaces support VLAN ID list

15.1F4

15.1F5

Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Local loopback

15.1F4

15.1F5

MAC learning, policing, accounting, and filtering

15.1F4

15.1F5

Mobile IP

-

-

Multichassis link aggregation

15.1F4

15.1F5

Multiple Tag Protocol Identifiers (TPIDs)

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

mvrp

15.1F4

15.1F5

Multitopology routing

15.1F4

15.1F5

Nonstop active routing (NSR)

15.1F4

15.1F5

OSPF

15.1F4

15.1F5

Packet mirroring

15.1F4

15.1F5

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE 1588)

17.4R1

17.4R1

IEEE 802.1ah provider backbone bridging (PBB)

-

-

Push a tag on Ethernet VPLS and Ethernet CCC tag encapsulations

15.1F4

15.1F5

RSVP Overview

15.1F4

15.1F5

RIP

15.1F4

15.1F5

SNMP

15.1F4

15.1F5

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)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Subscriber management and services:

  • Enhanced subscriber management

16.1R4; 17.1R1

16.1R4; 17.1R1

Synchronous Ethernet

16.1R1

16.1R1

Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)

16.1R4

Note:

TWAMP is not supported on the MX2020 and MX2010 chassis.

16.1R4

Note:

TWAMP is not supported on the MX2020 and MX2010 chassis.

Tunnel services

  • Clear DF-Bit (Don't Fragment Bit)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Unified in-service software upgrade (ISSU)

-

-

Unnumbered Ethernet Interface

15.1F4

15.1F5

VLANs IEEE 802.1Q:

  • VLAN stacking and rewriting

  • Flexible VLAN tagging

  • IP service for nonstandard TPID and stacked VLAN tags

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

17.3R1

17.3R1

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

Virtual private network (VPN)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4

15.1F4

15.1F5

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

WAN-PHY mode

-

-
Flow Monitoring

Inline IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Active monitoring

15.1F4

15.1F5

Port mirroring family VPLS, bridge CCC encapsulation (VPWS)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Packet slice for port mirroring

15.1F4

15.1F5

Flow monitoring on MS-MPCs

17.3R1

17.3R1

Inline flow monitoring

15.1F4

15.1F5
Layer 2 Features

Trunk ports

15.1F4

15.1F5

Layer 2 support for MX Series Virtual Chassis

17.3R1

17.3R1

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

15.1F4

15.1F5

IEEE 802.1ad provider bridges

15.1F4

15.1F5

Layer 2 protocol tunneling (L2PT) support

15.1F4

15.1F5

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)

15.1F4

15.1F5

Multichassis LAG—active/active and active/standby

15.1F4

15.1F5

Multichassis LAG—active/active with IGMP snooping

15.1F4

15.1F5

Link aggregation group (LAG)—VLAN-CCC encapsulation

15.1F4

15.1F5

IGMP snooping with bridging, IRB, and VPLS

15.1F4

15.1F5
MACSec

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

-

16.1R1

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

-

16.2R1

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