Chassis Cluster Supported Features
This topic provides a consolidated view of features that are unsupported or have limitations when deployed in standalone or chassis cluster deployment on Firewalls.
To determine if a feature is supported by a specific platform or Junos OS release, refer to Feature Explorer.
Supported Features on Standalone and Chassis Cluster
All features are supported in both chassis cluster and standalone mode on the same platform, except what is indicated in the Table 1 table.
Category |
Features |
Standalone |
Chassis cluster |
|---|---|---|---|
Ethernet Link Aggregation |
LACP (port priority) Layer 3 Mode LACP (port priority) Layer 2 Mode |
No |
Yes Not supported in Active/Backup and Active/Active modes. |
Diagnostics Tools |
J-Flow Ping MPLS |
Yes |
Yes Not supported in Active/Active and Active/Active Failover mode. But state is synched to backup node. |
Ethernet Interfaces |
Promiscuous mode on Ethernet interface |
No |
Yes |
Chassis Management |
Chassis cluster SPC insert IEEE 802.3af/ 802.3at support |
Yes |
Yes Not supported in Active/Backup, Active/Backup Failover, Active/Active, Active/Active Failover. |
Class of Service |
Simple filters |
No |
Yes |
Flow-Based and Packet-Based Processing |
End-to-end packet debugging Express Path support Host bound fragmented traffic Packet-based processing Selective stateless packet-based services |
No |
Yes |
GPRS |
GPRS (transparent mode and route mode) |
No |
Yes |
Multicast VPN |
Basic multicast features in C-instance Multicast VPN membership discovery with BGP P2MP LSP support P2MP OAM to P2MP LSP ping Reliable multicast VPN routing information exchange |
No |
Yes |
GTPv2 |
IMSI prefix and APN filtering Message-length filtering Message-rate limiting Message-type filtering Packet sanity check Policy-based inspection Restart GTPv2 path Sequence-number and GTP-U validation Stateful inspection Traffic logging Tunnel cleanup |
No |
Yes |
IDP |
Cryptographic key handling DSCP marking IDP class-of-service action IDP inline tap mode IDP SSL inspection Jumbo frames Performance and capacity tuning for IDP |
No |
Yes |
Layer 2 Mode |
Q-in-Q tunneling |
No |
Yes |
SNMP |
SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 |
No |
Yes |
Stateless Firewall Filters |
Stateless firewall filters(ACLs) |
No |
Yes |
Transparent Mode |
Bridge domain |
No |
Yes |
UTM |
Antivirus–Express Antivirus–Full Stateful active/active cluster mode Web filtering–Websense redirect |
No |
Yes Not supported in Active/Backup Failover and Active/Active Failover modes. |
User Interfaces |
J-Web Junos XML protocol Session and Resource Control (SRC) application |
No |
Yes |
Upgrading and Rebooting |
ISSU |
No |
Yes |