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  • 1.  PBR using Interface utilization

    Posted 03-25-2020 16:09

    Hi everybody,

    I am wondering if I can implement the following;

    MX  ge -0/0/1---WAN ( Service provider1)

            ge-0/0/2----WAN ( Serie provider2)

     On MX, we use PBR which says following:

    1) if  ge-0/0/1 transmit rate is 80%, send the traffic out of ge-0/0/2

     As a design goal, we should avoid  using  MPLS based TE to steer the traffic to target path.

    Is it possibe to acheive the desired goal by using PBR alone on MX?

     

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  • 2.  RE: PBR using Interface utilization
    Best Answer

    Posted 03-26-2020 00:42

    Hello,

    I reckon it would be possible with combination of RMON and event-script.

    JUNOS RMON https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration/rmon-qfx-series-cli.html can raise event on interface Bps exceeding threshold (800Mbps for 1GE, 8Gbps for 10GE and so on), and event-script can change routing table.

    You'd need to account for the following situations:

    1/ what is the time interval for asserting 80% ? 1 sec is too short, 5 min may be too long 

    2/ when ge-0/0/1 interface util is > 80%, do You want the  ge-0/0/2 to share the whole load with  ge-0/0/1, or only take a portion of it that exceeds 80%?

    3/ what to do when ge-0/0/1 util falls back below 80%? I suggest some hysteresis here, like waiting until it goes down below 70% to avoid flows bouncing between 2 interfaces/providers

    etc etc

    HTH

    Thx

    Alex