[j-nsp] MX Firewall Capabilities

[Brendan Mannella]

Nice, and if I decided I want stateful firewalling and IPS, I see I can use the DPC card...

Are there any pros/cons to this vs just buying a separate SRX?



-----Original Message-----
From: OBrien, Will [mailto:ObrienH at missouri.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:04 PM
To: sthaug at nethelp.no
Cc: Brendan Mannella; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] MX Firewall Capabilities

Yup. That is correct. Border filters are no problem without the ms-dpc. 

Sent from my iPad

On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:56 PM, "sthaug at nethelp.no" <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

>> Just wondering what the firewalling capabilities are with the MX series vs the SRX. We just would like to have basic firewall (block all incoming ports, allow specifcs). Would we need the MS-DPC to achieve this? The new router will be are trio cards.
> 
> As long as you don't need *state* tracking but simply basic filtering
> on ports, IP addresses etc your standard MX cards work just fine - no
> need for MS-DPC.
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
> _______________________________________________
> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp