[152033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Apr 10 09:38:34 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F842E83.6040703@studio442.com.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:33:32 -0700
To: jgoodwin@studio442.com.au
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Julien Goodwin wrote:
> On 10/04/12 14:31, Steven King wrote:
>> I am tasked with replacing an old linux router setup with Juniper =
gear
>> in the near future. Though I am a Cisco guy myself.
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>> Does anyone know of any older cheap Juniper gear I might find on Ebay =
so
>> that I may build a home lab without going broke?
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> A slightly more useful way of answering this then just pointing to =
eBay
> is to give some candidates.
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> Routing/switching *config*, firewalling - Branch SRX / J
>=20
> The lower end SRX, and J series devices are nice as they take nearly =
all
> the config (except MX-type bridging, and some EX bits), including =
MPLS.
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But not so nice in that they run Services JunOS instead of real JunOS =
meaning that they behave like Netscreens with a JunOS style =
configuration file instead of behaving like Junipers.
If you're wanting to model Services JunOS, then, yes, the SRX-100 is a =
good candidate and dirt cheap.
If you want real JunOS, avoid SRX or J series at all costs.
> Juniper do have a bunch more lines, but those are the most common
> (there's also the E/ERX BRAS boxes and ScreenOS firewalls, but both =
are
> not long for this world).
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Don't forget their SSL VPN boxes which are an acquired doesn't behave at =
all like a Juniper device line of products.
> If you just want one box to get to know the OS an SRX2X0 (or possibly =
a
> 100) is by far the most flexible way, and can be had for < $500 used).
With the caveat about Services JunOS above.
Owen
