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Juniper to Get Deep in the Consumer Market

My Juniper account exec let some news slip yesterday. We were on the phone talking about how great the SRX platform was and that I wanted to put one in my house instead of my ASA 5505. Of course, I don’t want to spend too much on a new

A Little Story on Switch Configuration

Here’s another story from the late night. I’ve changed the details to protect the innocent, but you’ll get the idea. I think most of you know that I started a new job late last year, and I’ve spent my waking hours getting caught up on how

JNCIA - Epic Win!

Maybe not epic, but a win nonetheless. My boss is over all the network guys in the company, and that includes guys that support different divisions and departments. He told me he was tired of waking up at 2am every morning to fix a problem the other groups can’t

Junos Basics - OSPF

Oh, my. Another Junos post. Somebody stop me before I get my JNCIA! This isn’t hard stuff at all. I’m sure there are a couple of cool tricks I don’t know yet, but let’s try anyway. I”m working on an SRX240 here running 11.1

Reviewing Goals from Last Year

The year is finally over. Actually, it sort of snuck up on me. I must be getting really old or something to let that happen. At the beginning of the year, I posted my goals for 2011. How did I do? Not too well. I batted .500, so feel free

Junos - VPN Hierarchy

Wow! A Junos post! Amazing. We all know that the configuration on a Junos box is very hierarchical. Sometimes it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s all a pretty cascade of code. One of the big messes that I’ve found is the VPN configuration hierarchy;

VRF-Aware IPSec Tunnels

Man, time is hard to come by of late. I’ve had so little time to rest that’s it’s hard to get my thoughts together. It’s a good thing in this case, though, since it’s my fantastic job that’s taking all my time. It’s