[j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?

[michael.firth at bt.com]

Unfortunately all the 7.x releases of JunOS have passed their EOL dates,
which means that they are no longer officially available for download
(see the various PSNs on the Juniper website for the various dates,
JunOS 7.6 (the last 7.x version) went EOL in August).

For some reason, JunOS 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 are available for download at:
https://www2.juniper.net/support/csc/swdist-domestic/

Not quite sure why www2.juniper.net is not in sync with the main Web
site.

I think that if you want to run JunOS 7.5 or 7.6 you will have to talk
to your Juniper support people to see if they can get hold of them for
you.

Given that a lot of people seem to be having problems getting JunOS 8.x
releases to run reliably on older hardware, it may be that eventually
there will be enough of a build up of pressure for them to make a
'legacy JunOS', or similar, available for users of older M5, M10, M20 or
M40 platforms.

Michael
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of chiel
> Sent: 20 December 2007 19:57
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?
> 
> Anyway, Should I be save if I upgrade top 7.6R4? The router 
> is only for testing purposes.
> Btw, I seem to only be able to download the 8.x version of 
> JUNOS from the juniper site. Where can I find the 7.x?
> 
> Thanks all for responding!
> chiel
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras at e-gerbil.net>
> To: "Shawn Morris" <shawn at smorris.com>
> Cc: <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:53:04AM -0800, Shawn Morris wrote:
> >> We've done some upgrades of both RE3s and RE2s in our lab 
> to 1g.  On
> >> the RE3 it's extremely simple as it's designed to be a 
> FRU.  You just
> >> open a latch and replace the card.  On the RE2 you have to 
> remove the
> >> faceplate and about 5 screws on the bottom to remove the 
> daugtherboard
> >> that the HD sits on and then the CF is on a daughterboard 
> underneath
> >> that.  We tried using some el-cheapo CF cards from Micro Center and
> >> those did not work.  We had to use regular Sandisk 1g CF cards.
> >
> > I'll second the problems with offbrand CF cards, though it 
> might also have
> > been because I was trying 2GB + high-speed (133x). The known-working
> > solution for me was 512MB "standard" speed SanDisk, never 
> had a problem
> > with those.
> >
> > Of course if you're running any kind of complex 
> configuration or large
> > number of routes RE-2.0's are going to be dead to you just 
> based on CPU
> > speed and the 768MB hard memory limitation, but the people 
> out there who
> > are running relatively simple configurations on M5-M20s 
> should still be
> > able to keep them alive a couple more years.
> >
> > -- 
> > Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       
> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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