[j-nsp] SRX Reliability

[Andrew Gabriel]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> We recently evaluated an SRX 3600, and modulo some minor cosmetic bugs and
> one major one (PSN-2012-10-754, fixed in later software) they seemed solid
> to me. We tested IPv4 & IPv6 layer4 firewalling, AppFW, dynamic routing
> with BGP and multicast. It all seemed to work ok, and we have gone ahead
> and purchased.
>
> It might help if you could specify what sort of things you want to do on
> them e.g. IPsec, IDP, inline AV/web filtering (which the 3000s can't do)
> and so forth.
>

Hi Phil,

Thanks, we are mainly looking at basic FW, VPN, and routing capability,
which we need to be rock solid. We do not intend to use the IPS and UTM
type features at the moment.

Thanks,
-Andrew.





On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Andrew Gabriel <mailandrewg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are evaluating the SRX 3000 series firewalls for our datacenter, and
> would appreciate some feedback from folks who are already using/deploying
> the SRX platform.
>
> I understand that the initial software versions had a large number of bugs
> and features that just wouldn't work reliably. Juniper claims that they
> have addresses most of those and that the current releases are stable and
> well received by customers.
>
> How true is that, and would you recommend the SRX platform as a core
> datacenter firewall at all?
>
> Thanks
> -Andrew.
>
>