[120244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Dec 13 12:18:49 2009
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:17:37 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <9F752F9C-8A43-4467-95A7-A1907E3BFF91@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:23 PM -0800 Mehmet Akcin
>> <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
wishful thinking.
you're likely to still have a staeful firewall and in the consumer space
someone is likely to want to punch holes in it.
>> 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
>
>
