Juniper Networks Field Guide and Reference - Softcover

Garrett, Aviva; Drenan, Gary; Morris, Cris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321122445 ISBN 13: 9780321122445

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

Synopsis

Guide condenses thousands of pages of manuals, tech notes, and engineering resources into a single book. Provides information hand-picked and edited by the person responsible for documenting all Juniper technologies. Softcover.

About this title

About the Author

Aviva Garrett is the Director of Technical Publications at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Cris Morris and Gary Drenan, Aviva edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.

Gary Drenan is Senior Technical Writer at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Aviva Garrett and Cris Morris, Gary edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.

Cris Morris is Senior Editing Manager at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Aviva Garrett and Gary Drenan, Cris edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.

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From the Back Cover

Juniper Networks® creates and deploys high-performance routing platforms used by many of the world's largest service providers. Written by the leading experts and technical writers at Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference is the definitive practical guide and reference to Juniper Networks hardware and software. This comprehensive book culls and condenses nearly six thousand pages of technical documentation, field alerts, technical FAQs, and more into a single convenient and accessible resource. It provides essential information for anyone designing, building, installing, configuring, and operating scalable IP networks.

You will find in-depth information about JUNOS™ software, Juniper Networks routers, system management, interfaces, security, and VPNs. All the latest Juniper Networks technologies and releases are covered, including JUNOS 5.4, the T640 routing node and the T320 router, and all M-series routers. Other topics covered include:

Router architecture and hardware components, including the T-series routing platforms and M-series routers

CLI configuration and system management with SNMP

Router interfaces, including Ethernet, SONET/SDH, tunnel, and channelized interfaces

Class of service (CoS)

IP Security (IPSec)

Routing policy and firewall filters

Routing protocols, including IS-IS, OSPF, RIP, BGP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SAP, SDP, MSDP, and multicast scoping

IPv6, including IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanisms

Various MPLS applications

Virtual Private Networks, covering Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs

In addition, this pragmatic guide features sample configurations that come directly from the Juniper Networks testing labs, as well as a summary of all the critical JUNOS software monitoring commands.

Whether you work with Juniper Networks products as a network engineer, administrator, or operator—or if you are just interested in learning how to build scalable multivendor IP networks—you will want to keep this thorough resource close at hand.

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

When I wrote the first Juniper Networks software manual in the early summer of 1997, it was about 250 pages. When we shipped JUNOS Release 3.2 in March 1999, the JUNOS manual was just shy of 1,000 pages. I was dismayed at the prospect of having the manual be in two volumes and asked the development engineers to stop writing code. Of course, they didn't honor my request. At the time of this writing, the JUNOS documentation set is 5,700 pages in 13 separate volumes. Similarly, the hardware documentation set has grown from a single 120-page manual to more than 250 pages of documentation for each of six platforms.

When our long-time publishing consultant, Patrick Ames, suggested that we might want to create a small field guide for installing, configuring, and operating Juniper Networks routers, I thought it would be nice to return to a world in which we could document the product in under 1,000 pages. We created a small team of technical documentation writers and editors--Gary Drenan, Cris Morris, Patrick Ames, and myself--and together we sifted the contents of all the JUNOS and hardware documentation, extracting the material that we felt was essential for understanding the mission of Juniper Networks and for understanding our hardware and software products. (We felt this was a more prudent method than simply removing all the vowels or deleting all the verbs.)

This book is the result of our extracting and condensing process. We begin with a brief overview of Juniper Networks the company, describing our markets, services, and offerings. While much of this information exists on the Web site--and we recommend you get the most updated material there--we felt that the book should provide some background about the company itself.

Chapter 2, "JUNOS Internet Software Overview," presents the big-picture view of the JUNOS software. This chapter is short not by design, but because the JUNOS architecture has always been straightforward, clear, and succinct. In Chapter 3, "Juniper Network Router Overview," our senior hardware writer Gary Drenan has worked diligently not only to review all the components and specifications of both the M-series and new T-series routers, but also to collect and collate it in one place. In creating Chapter 4, "Router Installation and Basic JUNOS Setup," Gary has similarly collected everything about installation, from unpacking the crate to getting the router up and running in the network.

Chapters 4 through 12 are concerned with configuring the router and describing the feature set of the JUNOS Internet software. Beginning with Chapter 5, "CLI and System Management," our senior editor Cris Morris efficiently describes how to work with the software. The following chapters detail interfaces and class of service (in Chapter 6) and IPSec (in Chapter 7). Chapters 8 through 10 get to the heart of IP networking, discussing routing policy and firewall filters, routing and routing protocols, and IPv6, respectively.

Chapter 11 looks at MPLS applications, Chapter 12 at virtual private networks (VPNs), and Chapter 13 contains a useful, tabular summary of all the critical JUNOS Internet software monitoring commands (I suspect these might turn out to be the most dog-eared pages of your field guide). Chapter 13 provides sample configurations that come directly from the Juniper Networks testing labs. Finally, we conclude with a glossary of the many Juniper Networks-specific acronyms and terms so you don't have to try to memorize them all.

While we have tried to summarize the Juniper Networks hardware and software features in this field guide, there will undoubtedly be places where the information is insufficient for your needs. Please refer to Appendix A in this book that lists additional resources. Also remember that you can always find a full and complete discussion in the Juniper Networks technical product documentation.

If you would like to give us your feedback or errata about this field guide, please send us e-mail at tech-doc@juniper.net.

Aviva Garrett
September 2002

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0321122445
• ISBN 13: 9780321122445
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 896