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RE: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Ammon)
Wed Apr 11 15:20:09 2012
From: Tom Ammon <tom.ammon@utah.edu>
To: Jay Hanke <jay.hanke@mankatonetworks.com>, "sthaug@nethelp.no"
<sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:19:05 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay Hanke [mailto:jay.hanke@mankatonetworks.com]=20
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:03 PM
>To: sthaug@nethelp.no
>Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>.Subject: Re: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab
>
>> We have 3 J2320s in the lab, all running 9.3R3.8. That's the last
>> *real* JunOS (no session/flow tracking) for these boxes.
>>>
>
>+1 on that. We have a number of 2300s in our lab for the same purpose
>running 8.x code.
>
>We also use Junosphere extensively, but nothing beats real hardware.
>j2300s are cheap.
>
>Jay
So, I have a question, then. For the purposes of learning JUNOS, is 8.3 cod=
e sufficient? Would you be missing a lot of features that are in newer code=
? I would assume IPv6 features are different between 8.3 and the latest cod=
e, is that right?
Tom
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