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Yes and no TBH. Some Juniper gear emulated the IP2 forwarding asics in software, its fairly decent for what it is. All of the packet inspection stuff runs ins
by bifrost 5y ago
Yes and no TBH.
Some Juniper gear emulated the IP2 forwarding asics in software, its fairly decent for what it is. All of the packet inspection stuff runs inside of FreeBSD. The new vSRX is all software and uses commodity cpu power for everything.
For raw speed, pfsense does a really good job on the low end of things but doesn't offer a lot of the inspection/IPS features that JunOS has. Arguably few people actually need IPS anyways.
- kazen44 5y agoThe same goes for a VMX, which arguable is even harder to virtualize (and it is not on par with a real MX series router yet). Mainly because emulating some trio chipset features is at the moment very hard/impossible to do with great performance. (especially the dense queing part)