If I wanted to do something good on a low budget I would get 2 L3 switches. Stacking is a bonus, but not necessary. They don’t have in chassis redundancy like a big router, but they do have lots of ports.
Compared to getting a new Juniper/Cisco/etc you’ll spend a lot less. Compared to getting an antique Junpier/Cisco/etc you’ll spend less on electric bill, less on backup power, less on cooling, and you can afford to keep a spare. Just pay attention to whether it does BGP. Divide your upstream connections between the pair of switches and same with your backhaul paths. Share routes between the pair. You have redundancy by having multiple boxes rather than having multiple cards like you would with the big toys. I’m hesitant to suggest a specific model because honestly I would have to engage the Juniper and/or Arista vendor to talk about features. But a lot of them will do BGP just fine. -Adam From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 2:57 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Juniper Router Like you used to be able to do for Cisco? Maybe you can still do it. From: TJ Trout Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:49 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Juniper Router If you want full support it has to be either new or a certified refurb, sometimes your VAR can get one from eBay put on a support plan if it is still new. I have read that you can also get support on like an eight Port switch for $30 a quarter which gives you access to all of the firmware for every juniper. On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 11:43 AM Steven Kenney via AF < <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> af@af.afmug.com> wrote: I bought an MX240 grey market reputable source off lease. Firmware terribly out of date. Couldn't get the firmware for it so I had to get it back into their support system. They wanted $45k.+++ I paid $15k for the unit. Bye bye Juniper. If it were reasonable I'd absolutely got it back into their support system. On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:38 PM Chuck McCown via AF < <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> af@af.afmug.com> wrote: It appears to be a good deal. <https://www.ebay.com/itm/154795687599> https://www.ebay.com/itm/154795687599 This I think has six ten gigabit ports. It can do a full L3 BGP table, which is what it would take to advertise our IP's along different routs ourselves. -- AF mailing list <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> AF@af.afmug.com <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This communication, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) to this email and is confidential. If you are not an intended recipient or acting on behalf of an intended recipient, any review, disclosure, conversion to hard copy, dissemination, reproduction or other use of any part of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error or without authorization, please notify the originator immediately and remove it from your system. -- AF mailing list <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> AF@af.afmug.com <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> AF@af.afmug.com <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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