[j-nsp] SRX, UDP traffic, routing asymmetry

[Michel de Nostredame]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:31 PM, 叶雨飞 <sunyucong at gmail.com> wrote:
> J-series is still using P4 class cpu ,ddr2 memory,  where as it is
> really cheap to upgrade them for now (I bought ~50$ from ebay , 3G
> cpu, 2.5G ram and it handles several copies of full bgp feed just
> fine) , it is clear that is not going to last long, they are heading
> for EOL really soon in my opinion.
>
> Forcing j-series to be a security router is a joke, i totally agree though.
>
> Speaking of 9.3, i have been running them for almost 2 years now, and
> it is working great, all the features are there(only ipesc v1 though
> and it is buggy) and given 10.4 is so horribly slow, I simply have 0
> intend to upgrade them.
>
> Cheers.

It looks like Juniper is going to replace J-series by SRX and we heard
about that for a long time from our SE, although they used the word
"possibly".

If that really come true, it will be an even huge loss for Juniper on
Enterprise routing / small CE market.

Hardware wise should be easy to put more powerful CPU/RAM etc to
J-series. The question is if Juniper really want to put a "router" to
its portfolio instead a firewall there.

--
Michel~