Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

Tue Apr 20 08:11:29 UTC 2010

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:32:47PM -0400, Jeffrey Negro wrote:
> Has anyone on Nanog had any hands on experience with the lower end of the
> new SRX series Junipers?  We're looking to purchase two new firewalls, and
> I'm debating going with SSG series or to make the jump to the SRX line.  Any
> input, especially about the learning curve jumping from ScreenOS to JunOS
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
> 
Depends. SRXes are (in my experience) still quite a bit away from stable. We've
had far more crashes than I'd like with them, without doing anything
particularly strange. SSGs on the other hand are a horrible pain to admin, but
(again, ime) seem stable as a rock. I assume SRXes will get betters given time,
so the question is can you afford the instability for the moment?

> Jeffrey
> 

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