[j-nsp] Need suggestions..

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:09:33AM -0700, Chris Kawchuk wrote:
> SRX650 would foot the Bill - High Memory (2G), 4 GE Ports, does all
> the VLAN switching/tagging/fun stuff.
> 
> Put it in packet-mode (JunOS 9.6+), add an Ethernet blade to the
> chassis, and voila. Instant core router.

SRX is still quite lacking in the reliability department. I'm trying to
use an SRX210-POE for home use, just a couple uplinks (cable, dsl, t1)
and some IPSEC tunnels, and it has been what can only be described as an
epic failure so far. At this point I have to restart rpd every few hours
to keep it from getting into a state where it times out the single BGP
session on the box (passing 1 route in each direction) every 30-60 secs. 
And every time I do that, it has about a 25% chance of kicking dhcpd
into a 100% cpu loop, where it just sits and spins inside a select loop
like so:

#0  0x20a77844 in select () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 
#1  0x209d144c in pselect () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 
#2  0x206fd928 in __evGetNext () from /usr/lib/libisc.so.2 
#3  0x206fe09c in __evMainLoop () from /usr/lib/libisc.so.2
#4  0x00451b40 in dhcpd_loop ()

If it wasn't for the fact that the box was free, I'd have thrown it 
straight into the trash by now. I wouldn't recommend trying to run a 
production router on this platform to my worst enemy right now.

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