[j-nsp] MX960 JunOS recommendations

[Derick Winkworth]

9.3r4 indeed.  Perhaps even 9.4r4 when that comes out. 

There are various issues and other things that have been nicely cleaned up in these releases.  Supposedly there has been some process improvements made to how JUNOS is coded and that this will be reflected in the 10.0 release.  I think there will greater confidence around the R1 and R2 releases going forward.  We are aiming for the 10r2 or 10r3 release pending lab testing...  

There is a new feature in 10 that automatically creates vlan interfaces based on dhcp authentication.  Can't wait to test that.

There are some great new features in 10, if you haven't already read the release notes...

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos10.0/information-products/topic-collections/release-notes/10/junos-release-notes-10.0.pdf


 



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From: Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>
To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 12:04:57 PM
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] MX960 JunOS recommendations

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:39:32PM +0200, Andrei Radu wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> We will be installing our first Juniper MX960 router in the network.
> We were a 100% Cisco shop and this is our first Juniper router. The MX
> will be a P/PE node
> in a pretty standard MPLS backbone network surrounded by Cisco 7600
> routers, running OSPF, MPLS/LDP, BGP and PIM sparse-mode, no layer 2
> or layer 3 VPNs whatsoever. Equal cost load-balancing over multiple
> 10GE links is a must. Does anyone have a recommendation for a stable
> JunOS version to run ? I'm currently looking at 9.5 or 9.6, I see that
> 10.0 came out on the 4th of November but from our experience with
> Cisco IOS releases we are reluctant to use the latest & greatest
> release.

As a general rule, I'd recommend always running the newest release of 
the newest Extended End-Of-Life version of JUNOS.  Currently, that is 
9.3R4.4 released in August.

10.0 will be out soon, and should be an E-EOL version, but I would say 
hold off until R2 or R3 before upgrading unless you absolutely need a 
feature only available in the new version.
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