Description

This KB explains why alarm 'FPC-x PIC-x: Invalid Port Speed Configuration' alarm' could be seen, when QSFP56-DD 400G optics and 100G optics are used such that they lead to 1Tb usage per port group

Symptoms

Below are the optics that Customer had. As you can seen, router has Ports 0,4,5 and 9 as 400G ports.

FPC 3            REV 24   750-077003   BCEJ2507          FPC-JNP10003-MEZZ-A
  PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           4x400G/10x200G/20x100G
    Xcvr 0       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660207      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 1       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204968      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 4       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660067      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 5       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660013      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 6       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204964      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 8       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204791      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 9       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660054      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
  PIC 1                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           4x400G/10x200G/20x100G
    Xcvr 0       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660083      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 1       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204800      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 3       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB203491      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 4       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660080      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 5       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660085      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4
    Xcvr 6       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204750      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 8       0        NON-JNPR     INMBBB204922      QSFP-100GBASE-LR4
    Xcvr 9       XXXX     NON-JNPR     INLBTI660220      QSFP56-DD-400G-FR4


As per Juniper documentation Per port group on Brackla can support 1Tb of speed. So, in above example - ports 0 to 4 on PIC0 form 1 port group and ports 5 to 9 form another port group on PIC1.

With this configuration, below alarms will be seen:

labroot@jtac-ptx10003-160c-r2004# run show chassis alarms
14 alarms currently active
Alarm time              Class Description
2023-11-24 09:39:24 IST Minor FPC-3 PIC-0: Invalid Port Speed Configuration
2023-11-24 09:39:24 IST Minor FPC-3 PIC-1: Invalid Port Speed Configuration

Solution

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With QSFP56-DD transceivers, you can configure a data rate of 1x400 Gbps on the two outer ports in a port group. To attain the maximum 1 Tbps throughput, you can configure combinations of two ports of 1x400 Gbps and two ports of 1x100 Gbps data rates in a port group with the following limitations:

  • Only the ports at the outer edge of each group can be configured for 1x400 Gbps (using QSFP56-DD transceivers).

  • When ports 0, 4, 5, 9 are configured as 1x400 Gbps, the center ports 2 and 7 must be blank. You must configure the blank ports by using the set chassis fpc fpc-slot-number pic pic-slot-number port port-number unused command.

    For example:
     

    labroot@jtac-ptx10003-160c-r2004# set chassis fpc 3 pic 0 port 2 unused

    labroot@jtac-ptx10003-160c-r2004# set chassis fpc 3 pic 0 port 7 unused   

    labroot@jtac-ptx10003-160c-r2004# commit

Modification History

2024-02-12 : Article Created