You have no idea how sad and true this is. 

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:16 AM Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2019, Mike Hammett wrote:

> What is the most common platform people are using with such limitations? How long ago was it deprecated?

One network's deprecated router is another network's new [bargain priced]
core router.  :)

This is very true. I picked up a nicely equipped juniper mx240 - waayyyy overkill for my current operation - for far, far cheaper than anything I could have otherwise afforded new. Absolutely killer could not be happier, and J has won a convert. But, I find this seems to be the thing - needing capacity/feature sets/etc just to be able to stand still, but not having the revenue stream to actually pay new for what these vendors want to charge for their gear/licenses/etc.

Mike-