[124506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Home CPE choice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 1 12:33:55 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <0016e6541f9eb90c65048323c5a6@google.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:09:51 -0700
To: jonesnco@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Having significant experience with all three products, I will strongly =
suggest
going with the SRX-100 if at all possible. It's real JunOS, even if it =
does take
a bit of bludgeoning to get it to stop impersonating a netscreen =
security model.
It's the same price the NS5GTs used to sell for ~$5-600 (512MB/1G) and =
has
a great deal more to offer (like fully functional routing protocols and =
JunOS
configuration environment).
Most of the NS5GTs I ever deployed in always-on environments didn't last
more than about 3-4 years. The SSG-5s I've dealt with haven't started
dying yet, but, most of them are only about 2 years old.
Owen
On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:39 PM, jonesnco@gmail.com wrote:
> Netscreen 5GTs will also do IPv6 with some ScreenOS 5.4 code revs =
(5.4.0r10.0 for sure). Those pop up on Ebay for $60ish and make =
respectable home CPE devices. Not quite the horsepower of the SSG5 but =
they seem to hold up reasonably well.
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> Dan Jones
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>> Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice options for home. I've enjoyed an =
SSG5
>> for awhile now. SRX100 for junos. SSG5's pop up on ebay occasionally =
for a
>> few $100.
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>> -Iain
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>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marty Anstey =
<marty.anstey@sunwave.net>wrote:
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>> > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :)
>> >
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>> > The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me
>> > thinking about CPE choice.
>> >
>> > What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the
>> > high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences
>> > with those (netgear in particular).
>> >
>> > Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe =
an
>> > ASA or the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model
>> > number off hand right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure
>> > about the operating system.
>> >
>> > Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense =
on
>> > hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over?
>> >
>> > Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me
>> > that decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order =
to
>> > have sufficient ram/cpu.
>> >
>> > My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line
>> > pretty much saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be
>> > watching Hulu in the living room, I'll be streaming music and =
running
>> > torrents (granted I have tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at
>> > the same time and it's a good experience. Running that kind of
>> > traffic load through my linksys would cause it to need a reboot =
once
>> > or more a day.
>> >
>> > What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't =
require
>> > too frequent oil changes :)
>> >
>> >
>> I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable
>> connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco
>> 2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint.
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>> -M
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> --
> -- -
> Iain Morris
> iain.t.morris@gmail.com
