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

[Mark Tinka]

On 26/May/16 11:52, raf wrote:

>
> Ah ok. This RE come with a new embeded network card for the mngt, and
> Freebsd 6 does have not support for it; and juniper would not make the
> effort to backport it.
> Juniper want their customer to test their new code. It can be scary
> for op, and understand the conservatism for this kind of stuff.
> However I don't think 15 is such a big change. Ok the underlaying OS
> have a big jump in version and junos begun to use SMP.
> But only for separate process, so from a sysadmin point of view it
> should be safe (as I m really confident with the stability of freebsd10).
> Junos 16 with the separate thread in rpd will be a other story I think.

Well, the upgrade to Junos 15 is not straightforward as well:

http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos15.1/topics/task/installation/junos-os-upgrading-kernel-freebsd10.html

Mark.