Yeah well it's fudge marketing.. Cisco could do the same if they had 90Mb images too I am sure. Then you'd just have to tral through all the myriad of variations of feature-sets and releases...
I agree though, I am sure I can work out what's an M10 and thats a M160 myself.. -- Leigh Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:59:11AM -0500, Hyunseog Ryu wrote: > >> Of course, that is key feature of junos. >> > > Just remember that already more than 60% of the size of a JUNOS image is > all the different subimages for each platform, and it's only going to get > worse with new platforms and feature bloat creep in. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 2936350 Aug 2 03:56 jpfe-M10-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 13376060 Aug 2 03:58 jpfe-M120-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 4788351 Aug 2 03:56 jpfe-M160-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 8265202 Aug 2 03:57 jpfe-M320-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 4700764 Aug 2 03:56 jpfe-M40-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 4354887 Aug 2 03:57 jpfe-M7i-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 7766830 Aug 2 03:57 jpfe-T-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 3360007 Aug 2 03:58 jpfe-X960-8.3R2.8.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ras ras 8852022 Aug 2 03:56 jpfe-common-8.3R2.8.tgz > > Personally I value the quicker install time of a reduce image size > (especially if you must use jinstall and reboot twice on older REs, ouch) > more than the "look ma one image" marketing. Being able to optionally > download a platform specific tarball would actually be nice. Then again so > would being able to fetch an image from Juniper via ftp or from the router > CLI instead of having to bust out lynx-ssl and scp. :) > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp