[j-nsp] What is your experience with the EX2200

[Chuck Anderson]

The most current supported software on EX2200 is 12.3R12--there were
some issues with insufficient flash space for 15.1, so they rolled
back the recommended release to 12.3R12.

They are fairly solid boxes, although I do notice occasional STP
issues on them (Root Bridge changes, Loop Protect activating),
probably when the CPU gets busy and misses some STP BPDUs.  I haven't
seen this issue with our EX4200s.  Luckily it isn't service impacting
in our deployment, since we don't have any redundant links (loops) and
it recovers quickly.

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:06:26PM -0500, Matt Freitag wrote:
> For some reason I also thought the EX2200 EOL date was coming up in a year
> or two but cannot find any sources to prove that.
> 
> My only complaints about the box:
> 
>    - Sometimes when they lose power abruptly it corrupts the file system on
>    the primary partition. Best way I know of to solve this is a complete
>    reinstall of the OS on the routing engine.
>       - This does not affect forwarding at all since the actual packet
>       forwarding happens on a different unit of the box. You'll only see this
>       when you try to SSH to it, for example, and it rejects your attempts by
>       closing your connection.
>    - It takes these things a few seconds to commit their config, but I
>    think the routing engine runs on an 800MHz CPU and 512MB of RAM. They're
>    also quite slow to SSH to, again due to the lack of CPU and memory.
> 
> Otherwise the EX2200 is a really solid platform, but as Saku said Juniper
> moved to the EX2300 a long time ago.
> 
> Matt Freitag
> Network Engineer
> Information Technology
> Michigan Technological University
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> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> 
> > Only buy EX2200 if you're buying gray and get them really cheap.
> > Juniper has long since moved to entirely different platform EX2300.
> >
> > On 8 December 2017 at 19:41, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> > > We're considering purchasing these switches for our branch offices. Our
> > > needs include PoE, and basic routing functionality. What's been your
> > > experience with these switches?