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Juniper's VM is free to "evaluate" and doesn't have any restrictions. It's also the only one which works properly in VMware long term without eventually crashing or slowing down. pfSense and Linux based distros all have buggy drivers or don't support some features like 802.1p QoS when using VMware's high performance virtual NICs. Cisco's VM has no free release.Why Juniper?
Both Vyatta (EdgeMax) and any Linksys hardware devices don't allow conditional routing based on protocol identification or even simple port number matching. My only other choice is RouterOS but I've read it has a lot of bugs compared to even pfSense. Due to high latency on Tata, I need to route game protocols and Steam through Airtel.But even though Juniper has a nice OOBE, we discovered performance is crap under high load compared to some others.
There are probably simpler ways to do what you want to do - some routers I've been playing with lately will let you assign any port(s) in any way you like (I think the new Ubiquiti EdgeMax devices can do it, they're based on Vyatta) and some of the (what used to be) Linksys VPN routers have up to so many WAN ports - I had a 16 port device in my house and I can use up to 8 of them for WAN, software configuration is pretty easy although the UI is crap - but that device has just been retired in favour of a Mikrotik routerboard which I just upgraded to RouterOS 6.2 today.