Hello Charlie, > Den 2. aug. 2017 kl. 09.56 skrev Charlie Boisseau > <[email protected]>: > > In the absence of the SRX110 and SRX220, we’ve moved to the SRX300. The > standard 200M licensed model is at a price that just about works for us for > customers who are in the market for an Ethernet circuit (Fibre, EFM, > EoFTTC/GEA). Where we need to go up to 1G, the cost for the upgrade license > isn’t as eye-watering as it originally looked. And the presence of two SFP > ports on the SRX300 saves the cost of PIM cards. > > For ADSL/FTTC based circuits, we’re just using Draytek 2860 - for their > reliability, not really for the features (we switch off everything except > DHCP for MPLS/L3VPN customers). > > Obviously this leaves ADSL/FTTC capability on the Juniper. These are rare > cases for us, because we don’t have many customers who are taking > Ethernet-based circuits with ADSL/FTTC backup. But where that does happen, > we use the Draytek 130 ADSL/VDSL modem with PPPoE passthrough with the SRX300.
The challenge with the SRX300 is the amount of bugs in DHCP and particularly DHCP relay. It is astonishing. At $dayjob we managed to get our hands on a bunch of SRX220’s with working DHCP. The hardware is wonderful, but the software is NOT what you may have been used to from JunOS. As for alternatives, we have used/use: OneAccess 1645, MikroTik (various), Juniper EX… Right now the features are something like this. OneAccess, useless GUI/CLI, impressive functionality, interesting bugs, solid hardware, incredible performance MikroTik, lovely (but different) CLI, impressive functionality, not so many bugs anymore, not so solid hardware, performance varies EX, almost perfect CLI, lacking in functionality unless you’re very careful which model and license you get, few bugs, incredible performance /Benny
