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Bare metal server connected to juniper stack
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 2:50 pm
by ChrisD
Good day all,
Quick question: Can I connect a bare metal Eve-NG server (Dell R430) to an aggregated interface from a Juniper stack? And is it possible to connect those links to a vJunos aggregated interface within Eve? Or am I somewhere limited down the road?
Best regards,
Chris
Re: Bare metal server connected to juniper stack
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:02 pm
by rusty725
It's not recommended. Each cloud is a separate Cloud interface and you're trying to merge them such can lead to issues.
Re: Bare metal server connected to juniper stack
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 3:45 pm
by ChrisD
Ok, so I separated the 2 interfaces from the stack members into 2 separate interfaces (xe) towards the bare metal server, config empty, lldp interface all. pnet6 and pnet7 (I can see the mac addresses in the bridge table on their interfaces). Now I connect them via Cloud6 and Cloud7 to two vJunos switches, but I can't see LLDP info from either side (connected interfaces on the two vjunos switches with empty config do see each other as lldp neighbors). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Re: Bare metal server connected to juniper stack
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2026 1:40 am
by rusty725
should work, check your configs
Re: Bare metal server connected to juniper stack
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 3:37 pm
by ChrisD
Ok, found the issue. The Linux group fwd_mask was still on "0x0" on the pnetX interface. I had to change the corresponding configuration on the /sys/class/net/pnetX/bridge/group_fwd_mask from “0x0” to 16384 (0x4000 in hex). Now it's working.