IOS to JUNOS challenge
I have set myself a small challenge of obtaining JNCIA-Junos in the next few week. To assist in achieving this to supplement the study material on the Juniper web site, I have set myself up a small lab environment using VMWare EXSi 5.0 Hypervisor and Juniper Olive (JUNOS 10.1). I got great help from http://routerjockey.com/2009/10/03/running-junos-under-vmware/
I currently have the following at my disposal from the Juniper web site:
- JNCIA-Junos_SG_part_1_09-16-2010.pdf
- JNCIA-Junos_SG_part_2_09-16-2010.pdf
I also bought two kindle books
- JUNOS Enterprise Routing [Kindle Edition] By: Doug Marschke, Harry Reynolds
- JUNOS Enterprise Switching [Kindle Edition] By: Doug Marschke, Harry Reynolds
The exam blue print can be found here http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/certification/resources_jnciajunos.html
I hope to tick these off as I work through my lab. I have quickly written the following objects for myself which I will expand as I progress on my journey.
- Host Name
- Management IP
- Time
- User (admin and read only)
- SNMP
- SSH
- Telnet
- HTTPS
- Syslogging
- Basic routing RIP - Junos1 to Junos2
- Basic Routing OSPF - Junos 2,3,4,5
- Basic Routing BGP - Junos 4,5
- Access List - Protect SSH access, routes filters
- VLAN ??
- IP Helper???
- VRRP ???
The Lab Diagram
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My Hardware
HP ML110 G6 , 8 GB Memory, 3 Hard disks (250GB), 2 X 1GB no RAID (couldn't get it to work)
ESXi 5.0. Tip for installation, use the integrated remote management console and virtual media to boot from the ISO image. The CD drive in the system is SATA attached and VMWare ESXi 4.1 did not find the device during installation, I didn't even both when upgrading to 5.0.
The Journey is more important that the destination
This is a journey from me, the end goal is a bonus. At this point all I have done on Junos is set and IP address and check ping connectivity so I have no idea how this series is going to go, or what sort of learning point it is going to throw up comming from a Cisco background. The ultimate goal is to progress beyond JCNIA-Junos, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.
Watch this space for Updates.........
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm just about to do what you're doing. I've recently gotten my CCNP and am now
getting the vibe, when looking for a new job, that some JunOS knowledge is not
a good thing, but a necessary thing to have. :-)
So I just got me a olive setup (using GNS3) and am now reading "JunOS for dummies"
(terrible book) and "JunOS cookbook" (seems to be better so far) to get the JNCIA and
hopefully the JNCIS if time permits.
I'll follow your progress closely. :-)
Cheers,
Sven.