Junos OS

Question

I have two EX 4300 acting as a core for a building. Does NSR needed in a virtual chassis to preserve l3 routing? At the momenti only have GRES configured. I thought NSR is needed only when a device have two built in RE. 

Thank you 

Nils 

YES you need to enable it

it copies all realtime information of routing protocols and Session and TCP info from the RE to the backup RE, thus BGP and OSPF and other sessions will not be reinitialized when there is a RE switchover

regards

alexander

You need GRES/NSR only when you have dual RE.

Each of these two features does something different with regards to interfaces states or routing protocols states during a RE switchover.

Here is something about GRES:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/gres-overview.html

And about NSR:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/nsr-overview.html


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Parau, 

Just to be clear Dual RE could be a virtual chassis as well as a single router with two RE? Am i correct?

Nils