Almost the same as the lab with vSRX. We only use one vMX as they are
quite memory heavy. This has been tested with the 16.1 version. You
need to extract the three images from the tarball
(junos-vmx-x86-74*.qcow2, vmxhdd.img and vFPC*.img). Convert the
later to the QCOW format:
$ qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 vFPC-20160617.img vFPC-20160617.qcow2
Then, create the appropriate symlinks:
$ ln -s vmxhdd.img junos-vmx-re-hdd.img
$ ln -s junos-vmx-x86*.qcow2 junos-vmx-re.img
$ ln -s vFPC*.qcow2 junos-vmx-pfe.img
There are several names for the same thing:
- RE, vRE, vCP (control plane)
- FPC, PFE, vFP, vPFE (data plane)
The password for the RE is Juniper. The password for the PFE is root.
With 15.1F6 and 16.1, no license is needed for lab use.
This lab is quite simple. One Juniper vMX and two Linux running BIRD are plugged on the same virtual switch and establish OSPF adjacencies between them (with BFD for faster convergence times).
root@vMX> show ospf neighbor
Address Interface State ID Pri Dead
192.0.2.2 ge-0/0/0.0 Full 2.2.2.2 1 38
192.0.2.1 ge-0/0/0.0 Full 1.1.1.1 1 38
root@vMX> show ospf route
Topology default Route Table:
Prefix Path Route NH Metric NextHop Nexthop
Type Type Type Interface Address/LSP
1.1.1.1 Intra Router IP 1 ge-0/0/0.0 192.0.2.1
2.2.2.2 Intra Router IP 1 ge-0/0/0.0 192.0.2.2
192.0.2.0/24 Intra Network IP 1 ge-0/0/0.0
198.51.100.101/32 Intra Network IP 1 ge-0/0/0.0 192.0.2.1
198.51.100.102/32 Intra Network IP 1 ge-0/0/0.0 192.0.2.2
198.51.100.103/32 Intra Network IP 0 lo0.0
root@vMX> show bfd session
Detect Transmit
Address State Interface Time Interval Multiplier
192.0.2.1 Up ge-0/0/0.0 1.000 0.200 5
192.0.2.2 Up ge-0/0/0.0 1.000 0.200 5
2 sessions, 2 clients
Cumulative transmit rate 10.0 pps, cumulative receive rate 10.0 pps
The transmit interval for BFD is 200 ms but it can be reduced on real hardware.