Learn Juniper and Cisco networking – with jokes!
RSVP lets us create LSPs that reserve bandwidth in advance. And that’s exactly what this three-part blog post series is all about! In this first post we’re going to learn how we combine bandwidth and priorities to get the most out of the bandwidth in our network. Click here for good times!
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If you’re an ISP running Juniper, it’s essential that you allow MPLS Self-Ping. If you don’t… weird things happen. Click to find out more!
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Subscriber Management is a real dark art. Not many folks know it. And yet, it’s essential for ISPs offering xDSL and fibre connectivity. This Juniper course taught me a lot about it. Click to find out more!
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BFD is a protocol that gives all your other protocols sub-second failure detection times. Very useful! This blog post uses Junos config, but the explanation is multi-vendor. Give it a read!
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The independent-domain command is a little-known but big-useful command. Let’s see how we can use it in Junos to tunnel localpref info from one VPN customer site to another!
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If you leave IS-IS to its default config, you could cause something big to impact your network! And chances are, even if you think you know what that impact is, you might not have worked out the whole story. Click here to read the lesson I learned in my lab!
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In Part 3 of this, we see how Junos takes saving configurations to the next level, and gives us HUGE power. Checking our work, rolling back to older configs, automatically rolling back to fix problem – we can do so much with Junos. Let’s find out how!
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In this post we use both Cisco IOS and Juniper Junos config to see the difference between route-distinguishers and route-targets in MPLS VPNs. Why do we need both of them? Click here to find out!
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In Part 2 of this series we look at how you make configuration changes in Junos – and how you can very easily scrap your changes without doing any damage o your network. Very clean!
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This post assumes ZERO Python knowledge on your part! You don’t even need Junos knowledge: I’ll do my best to make this useful for folks of ALL skill levels. If you’ve ever wanted to learn Python, but never knew where to start… read on!
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