[j-nsp] ability to turn USB port on/off for MX routing engine?

[Daniel Roesen]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:12:19PM +0400, Nick Kritsky wrote:
> This rises the question that is more generic. Have anyone built custom
> binaries that can be run on RE? I would love to see some additions to
> /usr/bin and /usr/sbin .

Back in the "good old days" where JUNOS didn't sport signed binaries,
there were multiple instances of people running "custom software" on
JUNOS REs. One example is e.g. a "mtr" package used until Juniper
finally properly integrated mtr in form of "traceroute monitor" CLI.
Another example (that's being rumored, but confirmed by some JNPR
guy[1]) is some dude (RAS? :-)) running a Doom server on a JUNOS RE. :)

Those days the fun is gone and the JUNOS kernel executes only
Juniper-signed code. Nontrivial to slip in own stuff.

Best regards,
Daniel

[1] http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2004-September/002977.html

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