Using Juniper SRX devices as routers

The SRX series are part of Junipers security line of products and provide firewall among a host of other security features such as IDS and IPS.

However you can effectively use the SRX range as a traditional router by changing the forwarding mode from flow based (stateful inspected) to packet based (stateless per packet inspection.)

You can verify the forwarding mode by issuing:

show security flow status

We should firstly ensure we remove any existing security configuration from the device with:

delete security

and then ensure the forwarding mode is set to 'packet based':

set security forwarding-options family mpls mode packet-based

commit it and then reboot:

commit
run request system reboot

Upon restart check the forwarding mode again with:

show security flow status