[j-nsp] RE-S-X6-64G-BB

[Phil Rosenthal]

> On May 25, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 25/May/16 23:33, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
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>> There is a different network card driver, so it would require a different kernel.
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> Which needs time, porting and testing...
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> Mark.


Oh I know, I was just saying that this is probably the biggest technical reason, and it would therefore potentially impact Junos for older RE's too, since they will all run the same kernel.

I think Juniper made the right call -- if you have a reason to "need" the bleeding edge RE, you should also be fine with running the bleeding edge Junos.

-Phil