RE: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab

[Tom Ammon <tom.ammon () utah edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Hanke [mailto:jay.hanke () mankatonetworks com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:03 PM
> To: sthaug () nethelp no
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> .Subject: Re: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab
>
> > We have 3 J2320s in the lab, all running 9.3R3.8. That's the last
> > *real* JunOS (no session/flow tracking) for these boxes.
> > >
>
> +1 on that. We have a number of 2300s in our lab for the same purpose
> running 8.x code.
>
> We also use Junosphere extensively, but nothing beats real hardware.
> j2300s are cheap.
>
> Jay

So, I have a question, then. For the purposes of learning JUNOS, is 8.3 code sufficient? Would you be missing a lot of 
features that are in newer code? I would assume IPv6 features are different between 8.3 and the latest code, is that 
right?

Tom

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