[j-nsp] J-series software EOL

[Richard A Steenbergen]

What's the story behind the EoL'ing of older J-series software? I see 
that as of 9.4R1 the only software available is JUNOS-ES, which only 
runs on the new model J-series. This seems like a premature end of 
software development date, given the EOL timeline that was published:

http://www.juniper.net/support/eol/jseries_hw.html

For example, the J2300 EOL was announced March 08, it was sold until 
September 08, it is supportable until September 2013, but the new 
software development has ended as of Feb 09? Really? Nobody who bought 
these boxes 5 months before they stopped making software for them is a 
little pissed?

I was trying to use J-series boxes as route reflectors, but even as of 
9.3R2 the old classic "extremely slow pfe install that blocks routing 
updates" bug which was fixed in other platforms in 8.5 is still there. 
Was hoping 9.4 might have a fix, but apparently it won't even exist. 

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