Having significant experience with all three products, I will strongly suggest going with the SRX-100 if at all possible. It's real JunOS, even if it does take a bit of bludgeoning to get it to stop impersonating a netscreen security model.
It's the same price the NS5GTs used to sell for ~$5-600 (512MB/1G) and has a great deal more to offer (like fully functional routing protocols and JunOS configuration environment). Most of the NS5GTs I ever deployed in always-on environments didn't last more than about 3-4 years. The SSG-5s I've dealt with haven't started dying yet, but, most of them are only about 2 years old. Owen On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Netscreen 5GTs will also do IPv6 with some ScreenOS 5.4 code revs (5.4.0r10.0 > for sure). Those pop up on Ebay for $60ish and make respectable home CPE > devices. Not quite the horsepower of the SSG5 but they seem to hold up > reasonably well. > > Dan Jones > >> Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice options for home. I've enjoyed an SSG5 >> for awhile now. SRX100 for junos. SSG5's pop up on ebay occasionally for a >> few $100. > >> -Iain > >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marty Anstey >> <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> > >> > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) >> > >> > >> > The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me >> > thinking about CPE choice. >> > >> > What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the >> > high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences >> > with those (netgear in particular). >> > >> > Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe an >> > ASA or the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model >> > number off hand right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure >> > about the operating system. >> > >> > Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on >> > hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over? >> > >> > Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me >> > that decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order to >> > have sufficient ram/cpu. >> > >> > My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line >> > pretty much saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be >> > watching Hulu in the living room, I'll be streaming music and running >> > torrents (granted I have tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at >> > the same time and it's a good experience. Running that kind of >> > traffic load through my linksys would cause it to need a reboot once >> > or more a day. >> > >> > What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't require >> > too frequent oil changes :) >> > >> > >> I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable >> connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco >> 2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint. > >> -M > > > > > > > > -- > -- - > Iain Morris > [email protected]
