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

[Colton Conor]

Alright, so if not upgrading from a previous Juniper box (buying new),
would you at this point not take the newer RE's that are the same price as
the older?

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

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> On 26/May/16 11:52, raf wrote:
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> > 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:
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> http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos15.1/topics/task/installation/junos-os-upgrading-kernel-freebsd10.html
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> Mark.
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