You could buy some M5's with Fast Ethernet PICs.
Daniel Golding NetRail,Inc.
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jeff Bartig wrote:
> 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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