Don’t care about support really. On the MX80 do they nickel and dime you to death with licenses, disabled featured etc., or can you just pick one up and it has all the stuff enabled (unlike Cisco I’m finding)? I’m going to look on my Cisco to see if CGN is available.
Is there any reason I can just get a beefy Linux server and tell it to do CGNAT? That seems to be harder to find than MPLS. The SRX550/650 seems to do all the other stuff on the wish list and be a solid platform, not? Dev > The original poster didn?t really give us much to work from ? with or without > support contracts, with or without legal licensing on the router ? > New, grey market etc? lots of choices. I?m not suggesting any of them are > wrong - more that different folks have different business needs > MX80 in particular is not an overly powerful router especially if you start > to load down the features listed - example being full BGP tables that can > become a challenge due to memory/CPU > On Dec 31, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Gino Villarini <g...@aeronetpr.com > <mailto:g...@aeronetpr.com>> wrote: > > Juniper mx80 , can be found on eBay for about $10-15k > > Gino A. Villarini > @gvillarini > > > > > > Gino Villarini > > President > Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 > <aeronet-logo_310cfc3e-6691-4f69-bd49-b37b834b9238.png> > >> On Dec 31, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org >> <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org >> <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org>>> wrote: >> >> Sure - there are lots of options ?.. >> >> Juniper MX line is personal favourite and one that we use for all of those >> functions (except CGNAT as we don?t do it currently, but the box can do it >> for sure). >> >> ?reasonably priced core router? means a lot of different things though :) >> For some folks this means a budget of $10k and for others it means $1mil >> >> Also, the licensing of features on certain vendors is something to be aware >> of ? for example, I just ordered another router for LNS purposes - after >> discounts etc the router itself ?only? cost about $50k but then I need line >> cards and several different licenses. Linecards add $250k and licenses >> another $60k or so ? now that ?router? is coming in at about $360k and >> that?s with pretty significant discounts >> >> >> >>> On Dec 31, 2016, at 12:12 AM, Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com >>> <mailto:d...@logicalwebhost.com> <mailto:d...@logicalwebhost.com >>> <mailto:d...@logicalwebhost.com>>> wrote: >>> >>> I?m looking for reasonably priced core router that will do Carrier Grade >>> NAT, MPLS, OSPF and BGP. I know Mikrotik will handle dancing unicorns, >>> fairy dust and perpetual motion all for $100, but is there anything like a >>> Juniper, Cisco, etc. that?s a more traditional thing people trust for core >>> routing that has these features? >>
