On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:14:18PM -0600, Rob Healey wrote:
For Juniper: ( You know who you are! )
Why not release an "Olive CD" with each new major JUNOS bump? It wouldn't hurt to have every schmoe in the universe that can boot a FreeBSD ISO also be competant in JUNOS! Place it as an iso download in the software docs area.
For the squemish in the legal dept. you could remove the code that handles Juniper hardware from the distro and still have an excellent CLI engine and minimal routing platform simulator.
I bet if you passed out a stack of "Olive CD's" at a NANOG there would be plenty of takers!
I still think there is a market for low-end 100Mbps-only "PC routers" for which they could easily sell thousands of copies of JunOS without the jpfe package at $1000 a pop. Considering they actually managed to add hardware-less firewalling in 5.x, I'm still not entirely convinced that they aren't thinking the same thing. But alas, it's probably too innovative a concept, and might cut into the "stupid with too much money" M5 buying market a tiny bit. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)