Juniper switch licensing...

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sth

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Using a used Juniper EX4300-48p here which I needed to configure some multicast switching on to support some video streaming needs came across this "error", 'warning: requires 'ospf2' license'. Google-fu enabled me to discover that to use the following features on the EX4300 switches, you must install an EFL:
  • IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) version 1 (IGMPv1), IGMPv2, and IGMPv3
  • Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
  • OSPFv2/v3
  • Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) dense mode, PIM source-specific mode, PIM sparse mode
which kinda makes things difficult... and expensive. With this unit being outside of current Juniper support, can I purchase/add a EFL license to enable the above features or will it require being under Juniper support to be able to enable by them?
 

scline

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Juniper licenses at this time are honor based, meaning most features like OSPF/BGP etc will give such alert when committing changes and leave an annoying log message with a yellow (warning) LED alert that licensing is needed. Functionality the license is complaining about should still work.

I recommend adding the following configuration to keep your log files readable, you also should not expect Juniper support if they see your are running things w/o licenses (does not sound like this will even be the case).
Code:
set system syslog file messages match "!(.*usage requires a license.*)"
Example readouts from my home switch (EX3300)
Code:
root@las1-ex3300-sw1> show system alarms
1 alarms currently active
Alarm time               Class  Description
2018-03-05 23:16:35 PST  Minor  OSPFv2 Routing Protocol usage requires a license

{master:0}
root@las1-ex3300-sw1> show chassis alarms
No alarms currently active

{master:0}
root@las1-ex3300-sw1> show ospf neighbor
Address          Interface              State     ID               Pri  Dead
172.28.0.18      vlan.1723              Full      172.28.0.18        1    30