Router Context

Router context allows a Services Router to act as a router, in which all management and transit traffic is allowed. All interfaces are bound to the trust zone, and host inbound traffic from all predefined services is allowed. In router context, the Services Router forwards all packets unless you configure a security policy that denies specific traffic.

JUNOS software is a hardened operating system. You can use JUNOS software with more relaxed checks for host-inbound traffic and configure the dataplane with default transit policies to permit all traffic. In this scenario, the Services Router operates in a router context.

You load a predefined template configuration, jsr-series-routermode-factory.conf, to change to router context. In router context, the Services Router remains flow-enabled. All security features are available, but they are explicitly denied.

For router context configuration details, see Router Context Configuration Settings. For information about how to change from secure context to router context, see Changing from Secure Context to Router Context.

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