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

[Christian Scholz]

Unfortunately no pattern yet - all areas have problems - but if I have to
name one that has very "hard" Problems it will be dot1x...
Thing is, that we installed a lot of them in production, they were just fine
but after a while we noticed, that whenever we changed the config (even
changing a single VLAN) the Device crashes - no pattern - no Clue. 
Core-Dump does not tell anything good.
JTAC is on this but didn't come up with a Solution yet - we replaced all of
them with the good old EX2200 and now the Production Network runs fine again
(Version 12.3R12-S6 I think).
We will test 17.4 or maybe even better 18.1 or 18.2 - the EX2300 needs to
become more mature before we trust it again.

By the way:
My earlier Mail was not meant to "bully" anyone - it was just my Opinion. I
love Juniper but the Software 15.1 is only a Joke - but enough said ;)



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Dan White [mailto:dwhite at olp.net] 
Gesendet: Montag, 11. Dezember 2017 16:53
An: Christian Scholz <chs at ip4.de>
Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Betreff: Re: What is your experience with the EX2200

Thank you all for your feedback. This is invaluable advice as we don't have
much operational experience with Juniper switches to work with.

Christian,

Is there a common theme among the issues you've encountered? Are they
aligned with a particularly feature set?

On 12/09/17 20:29 +0100, Christian Scholz wrote:
>I would only buy the EX2300 if somebody points a Gun in my Face -
seriously!
>Anyone recommending a Device that purely relies on 15.1 Software does 
>not even closely know what he is talking about...
>
>The 2300 is a Joke so far - We have 7 PR's open and weekly Core-Dumps...
>Stick with the EX2200 since the EX2200 is not EOL and the EX2300 is 
>unusable until a fine Release (17.3 onwards) is available, fixing all 
>the critical things.
>15.1 is the new Windows Vista - unstable, unreliable and just a big 
>joke - never ever ever ever use a 15.X in Production until you want to 
>watch the World burn...
>
>Just my 2 cents...

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