Juniper SRX220

[henrikk]

Has anyone used the Juniper SRX series of gateways to their home or small business routing needs? I can find little on these units on this site and in these forums so I ask. I am looking at a SRX220 as a router for a small business. The unit might be paired with a Juniper EX2200 switch. Any opinions? Anyone consider them and decide to go with them or another product?

- Henrik

 

[Dreamslacker]

Are there any specific features you require from the SRX line-up? i.e. UTM features or Web filtering.

If all you need is just simple firewalling and multi-port routing, you might want to obtain a Cisco ASA or ISR instead. Probably a lot easier to get paid (re)configuration support from outsourced vendors or freelancers than with Juniper products.

I had a short experience configuring an SRX240 for a customer and all I can say is that interface is too convoluted. It would only work if I ran the initial wizard following a factory restore.
Trying to manually configure the additional features required (simple 2 subnets individually NAT to 2 WANs) would fail rather spectacularly regardless of whether I used the GUI or CLI.
Furthermore, the web-access filtering refused to stop functioning even though I had disabled the feature and started blocking every website we came across.
We eventually gave up and I configured an old SSG20 (and reconfigured the ISP's ISR2921) to takeover the duties until we could retrieve an old PIX loan unit from the sister company.

 

[onnoossendrijver]

I use a SRX210 for some time now. I think it is a great router. The CLI is absolutely fantastic when compared to Cisco or any other well known router brand. The web interface is awful, on the other hand. I have disabled the web interface on my router.
The router supports about every protocol one could wish for.
The things I do miss: 6RD support and VPLS with LDP signalling. Also UPnP is not supported, but I don't really need that.