[j-nsp] Very disappointed with Juniper

[W. Kevin Hunt]

Hmm...
I've been lurking for 3 weeks trying to decide if our next border router 
  should be another Cisco 12k or a Juniper.  We acquired a Juniper M20 
during the acquisition of a defunct carrier's assets, so I'd like to use 
it but I'm not "comfortable" enough with it yet to put it on the border 
and "learn it" while it's there.

I manage 2 - 12012's right now and am somewhat disappointed in the 
feature set available on them.
I have a few questions regarding Juniper as I've never had the pleasure 
of sitting at the console of one :

1.) JUNOS seems steeped in BSD, one of my favorite OS's, is it true you 
can run FreeBSD compiled binaries on JUNOS ?

2.) How is "controller redundancy" handled on the Juniper platform?

3.) Anyone here had to deal with 6-8 mpps ddos attacks on a Juniper, and 
  if so, was the juniper cli responsive during the attacks, and what 
mitigation abilities did the Juniper give you?  I'm accustomed to just 
plain ios acl's for mitigation which is tough when there are 8-9 hundred 
sources.

4.) What are the support and upgrade options on equipment that one did 
not purchase "new".  i.e. we acquired this M40, it seems to have JUNOS 
4.1 on it.  What kind of expense am I looking at to get the latest JUNOS 
on it and basic telephone support for it?

--
W. Kevin Hunt
CCIE #11841
Linux+ SME

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand 
binary and those that do not."

Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> I recently moved over several chan DS3s and a few clear DS3s from some ancient
> 7507s to a Juniper M20... It was very exciting to get this new router, 40Mpps
--snip--
  IOS version that actually works properly.  What ever happened to 
unexplained
> spontaneous reboots? Shit, I'm going to be out of a job soon.  I'm not quite
> sure how to deal with this, everything "just works" "out of the box"....