VPLS

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Well, I spent a lot of time setting up VPLS trying to use logical tunnels and logical systems, but in the end it was a bust.  Here is my lesson learned:

I thought I was learning the MAC from CE1, but turns out all of the MACs are the same for the logical tunnels.  I did some searching and saw a way you could probably fix this, but at this point I’m done with it.  Here is the site for reference (https://forums.juniper.net/t5/Routing/VPLS-with-Logical-tunnel-interface/td-p/42803)

L3VPNs

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Alright, on to L3VPNs.

Same topology as before:

(note, the link from R6 to R7 should be 80.0.0.0/30, not 80.80.80.0/30)

First thing I am doing is setting up EBGP between R1 and R2/R3.  R1 is going to by my CE device while R2/R3 act as my PEs.

Back on track for JNCIP-SP

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Ever since starting the new job, I am getting a good kick in the butt with the learning curve.  I am learning more about ASICs and other hardware than I had even known was there. It has been a good thing.  I am learning a lot about what I do know and what I don’t.  These are my ramblings on how I am filling out the rest of my knowledge.

I think I should be able to do what I want with the below topology.  I am using a single MX5 with 7 logical-systems named R1-7.  If needed, I can add more.

Juniper CoS setup and verification in Junosphere with Firefly

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I’ve spent a bunch of time in Junosphere now and got a good working knowledge of how to get things started and connected up.

Yesterday I jumped the gun and tried to recreate the lab inside the O’Reilly Enterprise Routing book with the experimental VMX devices.  I was able to get routing up and working, but when I went to implement CoS, the virtual PICs don’t support it – bummer.  Lot of time down the drain there, but I saved the topology/config off so that I could use it for something else – maybe multicast or bgp/ospf demo – who knows.

Intro to Junosphere

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I am glad I took the short break to check out the Juniper Champion stuff.  Getting access to Junosphere is something I wanted to try before, and I had done a little bit when they were doing some challenge stuff a while back, but the cost and 24 hour block model just turned me off and I went to ESXi and vSRXs.

Now that I have access that I am not paying for personally, I gave it another go.  Let me tell you, I had some frustrating times to get started.

Temporary change of gears – Juniper Champion Program

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I was pretty gung ho about working on my JNCIP-ENT when I learned about the Juniper Champion program.  I took a few weeks to run through the material and it was a good experience overall.

The plus side – I got to learn more about hardware than I ever wanted to.  Unless you work with that part of it every day, I don’t see how you are going to memorize all the specs they thrown at you.  I do got a better general ideal of product lines and throughput for different devices, so that’s cool.

Multicast Part 2 – Removing PIM, Bootstrap-RP, Anycast-RP

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Started off just playing with my current setup. I tried kicking it off again and while the requester and source saw the connection, no multicast data was flowing. Weird…

Then I remembered I had disabled PIM on SW1 in my setup. Since PIM was disabled, there was no request going up to the RP so the RP didn’t do anything with the data. Important to have PIM running on all the interfaces up to the RP from the requester and source!

Multicast is fun!

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May 12 2015
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Alrighty, baseline configs are in place.  I wasn’t able to use two of the vSRXs as switches as they don’t support etherswitching, but whatever.  So now I have 4 routers – two vSRXs at the top connected to each other, each with a vSRX hanging off of it.

Switching from Security back to Routing/Switching

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I finished up a little studying for the JNCIS-SEC and finally took the test.  Normally I can walk in and feel pretty sure about myself with the material but the first few questions really through me off my game.  To combat this, I marked them for review and came back at the end to finish out the test.  While I like the review function of tests I know better to go back and change answers – it usually kicks me in the but.

More Automation with Python EZ – adding a banner.

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Took me a little bit, but finally worked out the issues with my next script.  I wanted to create something simple that would add a banner message to a box.

The results: