Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab

Wed Apr 11 11:34:56 UTC 2012

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:31 PM
> To: Mark Kamichoff
> Cc: jgoodwin at studio442.com.au; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab
> 
> It's quite unfortunate. I'd really like for the SRX series to not be
> so crippled for
> my purposes.
> 
> Owen

While it may not forward packets exactly like an M-series or MX, for the OP's purpose of simply learning JUNOS in a home lab, it will work just fine.  I learned quite a bit using Olives (which don't exist), with the understanding that there were a lot of limitations. 

To the OP, I would also suggest checking out Juniper's website, specifically the 'Education' section.  There are a ton of excellent learning tools on there - Learning Bytes, Web-Based Training, Day One books, etc.:

http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/jnbooks/
https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_info.aspx?id=5853
https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_courses.aspx

-evt