[j-nsp] MX304 - Edge Router

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Thu Oct 26 09:58:52 EDT 2023



On 10/26/23 15:47, Saku Ytti wrote:
> I urge everyone to give them the same message as I've given.
>
> Any type of license, even timed license, after it expires will not
> cause an outage. And enforcement would be 'call home' via 'http(s)'
> proxy, which reports the license-use data to Juniper sales, making it
> a commercial problem between Juniper and you.
>
> Proxy, so that you don't need Internet access on the device.
> Potentially you could ask for encryption-less mode, if you want to log
> on the proxy what is actually being sent to the vendor. I don't give
> flying or any other method of locomotion fuck about leaking
> information.
>
> I believe this is a very reasonable give/take compromise which is
> marketable, but if we try to start punching holes through esoteric
> concerns, we'll get boxes which die periodically because someone
> forgot to re-up. This is a real future that may happen, unless we
> demand it must not.

I agree.

Mark.


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