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

[Ben Dale]

On 21/03/2013, at 12:16 AM, Daniel Roesen <dr at cluenet.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I remember hearing a rumour that a few substantial networks were running their border REs as sendmail gateways.