Networking, system administration and more
Networking, system administration and more
NOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. While looking at the Juniper vMX documents recently, I noticed that support has now been added for Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-62-generic (see Table 2). Since I personally prefer using Debian over RHEL systems, I […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. Juniper has provided an updated copy of the i40e module to resolve the “PF reset” issues that occur on vMX routers when using SR-IOV. The new driver release is version 2.4.101. IMPORTANT: At the time […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. Recent releases of the Juniper vMX (18.1 onwards) support dual routing engines when using KVM as the virtualisation technology. One or both of the routing engines do not need to be configured on the same […]
Read moreWhen attempting to install a Juniper vMX router (release 18.3R1-S1.4) on a newly installed Centos 7.2 host I got the following error: When I checked the supported machine types with /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -machine help everything looked fine, pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0 was listed as the default: The error gmem.c:489: custom memory allocation vtable not […]
Read moreUPDATE: A new copy of the i40e driver has been provided by Juniper (unofficially). You can try this at your own risk, see here for details. When using a Juniper vMX with a Intel X520 or Intel X710 based card and SR-IOV, under load the vFPC may crash. This seems […]
Read moreI experienced a strange issue after making some configuration changes to a Juniper MX104 device with a MS-MIC-16G installed. After removing some NAT rules the services interface that the NAT service was attached to started doing a large amount of traffic. The same change was made on a second router […]
Read moreAfter I have deployed the vMX on a CentOS 7.4 host that has an IPv6 address for management, I noticed that IPv6 stopped working when the vMX was started. In my case, the IPv6 address was originally on the interface bond0. When the vMX starts a bridge interface is created […]
Read moreWhen starting a Juniper vMX router you may get an error from the vMX.sh script that shows that the libvirt files could not be generated followed by “setlocale: No such file or directory” one or more times. The error looks like this: Ensure that both the hosts’s locale and your […]
Read moreWhen starting a Juniper vMX router you may get a warning from the vMX.sh script that shows that the IOMMU status is disabled. It will look like this: This seems to occur if the host OS is CentOS – the shell script to detect the IOMMU does not validate this […]
Read moreWhen starting a Juniper vMX router you may get an error from the vMX.sh script that states “Insuffecient cores to pin” (note the incorrect spelling). The error looks like this: You may have over-assigned the number of CPU’s to the vFPC/vCP. Make sure that there is less CPU’s allocated to […]
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