Description

On EX4400 the 100G interfaces are not coming up.

These 100G ports are set up by default as 50G Virtual Chassis ports.

If you are not using an EX4400 switch as a member switch in a Virtual Chassis, you can use a command with the network-port option to enable network port mode, which converts the default VCPs on the switch into network ports. By default, the two 100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports on the rear panel are set as two logical 50-Gbps VCP interfaces each, forming a total of four logical 50-Gbps VCPs. (The default VCPs are in PIC slot 1, so the VCP interfaces are named vcp-255/1/0 through vcp-255/1/3.)

If you convert these ports into network port mode, they become two 100 Gigabit Ethernet network ports, or you can channelize each of them into four 25-Gigabit Ethernet or four 10-Gigabit Ethernet network ports.

Solution

On Juniper Networks EX4400 series use the following command to enable 100G interfaces:

>request virtual-chassis mode network-port

Then, reboot the switch and use the command > show interfaces terse to confirm the interface is now detected

 

Modification History

KB Created 08/23/2023