[j-nsp] Finally...

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> said:
> Woohoo. Now if only it didn't take several hours to download all of the
> half-dozen images you need to get for every platform, at a whopping
> 250KB/s, one at a time, using lynx. The slow speeds of ftp.juniper.net
> wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to use a full web browser to login
> and fetch each image, i.e. if you could just fire off a wget and use
> http or ftp authentication to download them in the background in
> parallel.

Hmm, I get better download rates than that.  Anyway, you can always use
elinks (available at fine open source operating systems near you), which
supports background downloads.

One thing that would help (both download time and flash space) would be
to reduce the size of the downloads.  How many people have the whole
range of M/T series routers?  JUNOS hasn't been "one image to rule them
all" for a while now; why pretend one image runs on all of the M/T
series?  Just go ahead and split it up.  I'd rather download two images
that have a little duplication than a single image that includes support
for 10 other platforms I don't need.

One thing nice on my old old (OLD!) Ascent TNT dialup NASes is that I
can set what cards I actually use, and only those parts of the image are
loaded into flash.  At the rate JUNOS seems to be growing, it seems like
I'm going to have to go through another round of CF card upgrades before
long.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.