[120155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Dec 10 21:50:12 2009
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <B70C922D6DCDA822C507C90E@[192.168.1.44]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:44:35 -0800
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:23 PM -0800 Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net
> > wrote:
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>> Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router?
>>
>> They do IPv6 and they are pretty good in general, and cheap as well.
>>
>
> Not as usable in the consumer space due to lack of UPnP (and Juniper
> is NOT interested in implementing it). They also lack some other
> customer friendly features.
>
UPnP is a bad idea that (fortunately) doesn't apply to IPv6 anyway.
You don't need UPnP if you'r not doing NAT.
> Price point is also probably 3x-5x what most are willing to pay for
> CPE.
Yep.
Side-note, SRX-100 is the new SSG-5 equivalent and it's JunOS instead
of ScreenOS. Nice box.
Owen
