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Enabling Inline Service Interfaces for PPPoE and LNS Subscribers

The inline service (si) interface is a virtual physical interface that resides on lookup engines. The si interface, referred to as an anchor interface, makes it possible to support multilink PPP (MLPPP) bundles without a special services PIC. The si interface is supported on MLPPP on the MX Series.

Four inline service interfaces are configurable per MPC-occupied chassis slot. The following MPC2 slots are supported:

  • The MPC2-3D contains two lookup engines, each with two si interfaces.

  • The MPC1-3D contains only one lookup engine and it hosts all four si interfaces.

You can configure the following inline service interfaces as anchor interfaces for MLPPP bundles: si-slot/0/0, si-slot/1/0, si-slot/2/0, and si-slot/3/0.

  • For MLPPP over PPPoE subscribers, family mlppp is supported in pp0 member link IFL, and the bundle is an si IFL.

  • For MLPPP over LNS subscribers, family mlppp is supported in si- member link IFL, and the bundle is an si IFL.

You enable inline services for PICs 0 to 3 individually by setting the inline-services statement at the [edit chassis] hierarchy level for the FPCs.

The following example shows how to enable inline services for PIC 0 on MPC slot 1, and PIC 1 on MPC on slot 5, and set 10g as the bandwidth for tunnel traffic. As a result, both si-1/0/0 and si-5/0/0 are created for the specified PICs as well.

To enable inline service interfaces:

  1. Access an MPC-occupied slot and the PIC where the interface is to be enabled.

    [edit chassis]user@host# edit fpc slot-number pic number

  2. Enable the interface and specify the amount of bandwidth reserved on each lookup engine for tunnel traffic using inline services.

    [edit chassis fpc slot-number pic number]user@host# set inline-services bandwidth

The following shows sample output: