[66377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Thu Jan 8 13:33:37 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:32:13 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: rhealey@norstar.com
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200401081814.i08IEIpe007619@benjy.onvoy.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:14:18PM -0600, Rob Healey wrote:
>
> For Juniper: ( You know who you are! )
>
> Why not release an "Olive CD" with each new major JUNOS bump? It
> wouldn't hurt to have every schmoe in the universe that can boot
> a FreeBSD ISO also be competant in JUNOS! Place it as an iso download
> in the software docs area.
>
> For the squemish in the legal dept. you could remove the code that
> handles Juniper hardware from the distro and still have an excellent
> CLI engine and minimal routing platform simulator.
>
> I bet if you passed out a stack of "Olive CD's" at a NANOG there would
> be plenty of takers!
I still think there is a market for low-end 100Mbps-only "PC routers" for
which they could easily sell thousands of copies of JunOS without the jpfe
package at $1000 a pop. Considering they actually managed to add
hardware-less firewalling in 5.x, I'm still not entirely convinced that
they aren't thinking the same thing. But alas, it's probably too
innovative a concept, and might cut into the "stupid with too much money"
M5 buying market a tiny bit.
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