Hi Jeff,
The olive that you have was brought out as a stop gap to do some software
config / training in absence of an evaluation unit. We need to take it out
of service and get the hardware back. Please destroy the software and let
me know when would be a good time to pick it up from you.
Thanks
Jack.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Bartig [mailto:jeffb@doit.wisc.edu]
>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:58 AM
>To: Paul Traina
>Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [j-nsp] OLIVE install
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:10:07PM -0500, Paul Traina wrote:
> > No, they are not. The olive software load was originally intended for
> > testing the software before we had
> > the hardware up and running. It was then, upon rare occasions, used
>for
> > training purposes. However,
> > it has never been supported, and never been licensed for use. It
>doesn't
> > work well, we no longer use it
> > internally (since now we have M5s and M10s in the routing protocols
>lab).
> >
> > Please do not distribute it, please do not install it, if you have it,
> > please wipe it.
>
>Paul,
>
>I just found your e-mail while cleaning up my inbox. I had saved it,
>since I wanted to reply, but it got burried.
>
>I'm rather unhappy to hear that Juniper is discontinuing the Olive.
>I am currently in the process of evaluating the Juniper vs Cisco
>GSR. One of the important selling points of the Juniper was the
>fact that the Olive was available.
>
>I work in an education/non-profit environment where we don't have
>huge R&D budgets to outfit a large equipment lab. The Olive appeared
>to be an ideal way to inexpensively outfit our lab with devices
>that could run Junos. I've been playing around with an Olive
>already, so I understand that there are limitations of what the
>Olive is capable of performing. The Olive is capable of 80% of
>what I would do in the lab, though. Examples include training
>staff and routing policy design. The Olive appears to work great
>for this type of application.
>
>On the Cisco side of things, I also have this capability. Cisco
>makes their IOS 12.0S code available for quite a few of their
>platforms, all the way down to the 2500. I am able to run similar
>IOS code on old junk routers (2500, 4500, etc) in the lab and get
>about 80% of my work done.
>
>Any chance that Juniper will not discontinue the Olive?
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Jeff
>
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