Course Description
Course Overview
This 5-day course combines 2 courses which are geared toward all Juniper Routing platforms including J-Series, M-Series, SRX and MX products. Students will learn all aspects of JUNOS Routing beginning with an introduction to JUNOS, basic and intermediate level routing operations, and troubleshooting skills.
Topics included in this curriculum include:
Course Objectives
Refer to each course for detailed content, a general outline of course content includes:
- Describe the basic design architecture of JUNOS Software
- Identify and provide a brief overview of devices running JUNOS Software
- Navigate within the JUNOS Software CLI
- Perform tasks within the CLI operational and configuration modes
- Restore a device running JUNOS Software to its factory-default state
- Perform initial configuration tasks
- Configure and monitor network interfaces
- Describe user configuration and authentication options
- Perform secondary configuration tasks for features and services such as syslog and tracing, Network Time *Protocol (NTP), configuration archival, and SNMP
- Monitor basic operation for JUNOS Software and devices
- Identify and use network utilities
- Upgrade the JUNOS Software
- Perform file system maintenance and password recovery on a device running JUNOS Software
- Explain basic routing operations and concepts
- View and describe routing and forwarding tables
- Configure and monitor static routing;
- Configure and monitor OSPF
- Describe the framework for routing policy and firewall filters
- Explain the evaluation of routing policy and firewall filters
- Identify instances where you might use routing policy
- Write and apply a routing policy;
- Identify instances where you might use firewall filters
- Write and apply a firewall filter;
- Describe the operation and configuration for unicast reverse path forwarding (RPF)
- Explain the purpose and benefits of class of service (CoS);
- List and explain the various components of CoS
- Implement and verify proper operation of CoS
- Configure and monitor static, aggregate, and generated routes
- Configure and share routes between routing instances
- Describe load-balancing concepts and operations
- Implement and monitor Layer 3 load balancing
- Configure and monitor filter-based forwarding
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot OSPF
- Describe BGP and its basic operations
- Configure and monitor BGP
- Describe IP tunneling concepts and applications
- Configure and monitor GRE and IP-IP tunnels
- Identify various high-availability features supported in JUNOS
- Configure and monitor high-availability features
- Describe some differences between IPv4 and IPv6
- List IPv6 address types and describe the IPv6 addressing format
- Configure and monitor routing for IPv6 environments
- Tunnel IPv6 traffic over an IPv4 network
- Explain the operations of IS-IS
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IS-IS
Target Audience
Network engineers, support personnel, reseller support, and others responsible for implementing Juniper MX products in a Service Provider environment or striving to become certified engineers will find the most value in this course.
Course Outline
Day 1 (IJOS)
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: Junos Operating System Fundamentals
- The Junos OS
- Traffic Processing
- Platforms Running the Junos OS
Chapter 3: User Interface Options
- User Interface Options
- The Junos CLI: CLI Basics
- The Junos CLI: Operational Mode
- The Junos CLI: Configuration Mode
- Lab 1: The Junos CLI
Chapter 4: Initial Configuration
- Factory-Default Configuration
- Initial Configuration
- Interface Configuration
- Lab 2: Initial System Configuration
Chapter 5: Secondary System Configuration
- User Configuration and Authentication
- System Logging and Tracing
- Network Time Protocol
- Archiving Configurations
- SNMP
- Lab 3: Secondary System Configuration
Day 2 (IJOS)
Chapter 6: Operational Monitoring and Maintenance
- Monitoring Platform and Interface Operation
- Network Utilities
- Maintaining the Junos OS
- Password Recovery
- System Clean-up
- Lab 4: Operational Monitoring and Maintenance
Chapter 7: Interface Configuration Examples
- Review of the Interface Configuration Hierarchy
- Interface Configuration Examples
- Using Configuration Groups
Chapter 8: The J-Web Interface
- The J-Web GUI
- Configuration
- Lab 5: The J-Web Interface
Chapter 9: Routing Fundamentals
- Routing Concepts: Overview of Routing
- Routing Concepts: The Routing Table
- Routing Concepts: Routing Instances
- Static Routing
- Dynamic Routing
- Lab 6: Routing Fundamentals
Day 3 (IJOS)
Chapter 10: Routing Policy
- Routing Policy Overview
- Case Study: Routing Policy
- Lab 7: Routing Policy
Chapter 11: Firewall Filters
- Firewall Filters Overview
- Case Study: Firewall Filters
- Unicast Reverse-Path-Forwarding Checks
- Lab 8: Firewall Filters
Chapter 12: Class of Service
- CoS Overview
- Traffic Classification
- Traffic Queueing
- Traffic Scheduling
- Case Study: CoS
- Lab 9: Class of Service
Day 4 (JIR)
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: Protocol-Independent Routing
- Static Routes
- Aggregated Routes
- Generated Routes
- Martian Addresses
- Routing Instances
**Chapter 3: Load Balancing and Filter-Based Forwarding*
- Overview of Load Balancing
- Configuring and Monitoring Load Balancing
- Overview of Filter-Based Forwarding
- Configuring and Monitoring Filter-Based Forwarding
Chapter 4: Open Shortest Path First
- Overview of OSPF
- Adjacency Formation and the Designated Router Election
- OSPF Scalability
- Configuring and Monitoring OSPF
- Basic OSPF Troubleshooting
Day 5 (JIR)
Chapter 5: Border Gateway Protocol
- Overview of BGP
- BGP Attributes
- IBGP Versus EBGP
- Configuring and Monitoring BGP
Chapter 6: IP Tunneling
- Overview of IP Tunneling
- GRE and IP-IP Tunnels
- Implementing GRE and IP-IP Tunnels
Chapter 7: High Availability
- Overview of High Availability Networks
- GR
- Graceful RE Switchover
- Nonstop Active Routing
- BFD
- VRRP
Appendix A: IPv6
Appendix B: IS-IS