We received two units from Juniper, the NS-5GT and NS-25. Both of these units were still labelled as Netscreen units even though Juniper now owns Netscreen. We only tested the NS-5GT and used the NS-25 as the head-end device and to sort out issues in the test bed.
The front of the NS-5GT has no ports, just 12 LEDs, 10 of these LEDs show the link/activity and 10/100Mbps connectivity of the four trusted and one untrusted network ports. The other two LEDs show power and status.
The rear of the unit has the Kensington lock physical security feature, an earth/ground screw point, a power input, a recessed reset button, console port, serial modem port, and five network ports -- four of which are trusted and one of which is untrusted. The base of the unit included two slotted mounts suitable for secure desk or wall mounting.
The initial configuration was relatively simple while the setup of a tunnel took us a lot longer than expected only because the GUI wasn't as intuitive as some of the others. But once you get use to it, you can actually get things done very quickly.
The Juniper NS-5GT also offers firewall protection, as well as Web filtering, antivirus scanning, and a whole heap of other optional extras, however you have to pay extra for access to those.
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