Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose (Most Read threads copied from the old J-Net) [ Edited ]

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mnasim Posts: 4 Registered on: Jul 20, 2007 Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 15, 2007  4:18 AM 92 views Dear All, Hope that everyone will be doing well. I want to become professional ( or Expert) in installing , configuring, and adminstring Juniper Firewalls. I am also going to have a chance to implment SS520 to a customer end. Now I am thinking to buy on SSG 20 or SSG 5 for my styding purpose at home . which one should I go and buy . Can I able to master my self on all the important configuration and concepts in ScreenOS. If you people recommend any other model pleas do this. Thanks a lot A STUDENT : )

rkim Posts: 237 Registered on: Jan 24, 2006 RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 15, 2007  8:42 AM 106 views In reply to: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose — Dear All, Hope that everyone will be doing well. I want to become... posted by mnasim on Sep 15, 2007  4:18 AM You can buy either the SSG5 or SSG20.  The difference between the two is the SSG20 has PIM slots which allow you to insert different media types (i.e. adsl, T1, etc.).  The good news is ScreenOS is the same whether you have an SSG5/20 or SSG520/550.  There are some architectural differences (slot numbers, etc.) and the way you implement HA on SSG5/20 vs SSG520/550 is slightly different.  But otherwise you can do just about everything else.

mnasim Posts: 4 Registered on: Jul 20, 2007 RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 15, 2007  11:54 PM 104 views In reply to: RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose — You can buy either the SSG5 or SSG20.  The difference between the two is... posted by rkim on Sep 15, 2007  8:42 AM Just I want to confirm that if I worked on SSG5 OR SSG20 extensively I can easily work on ISG and other higher end firewalls. Thanks in advance

rkim Posts: 237 Registered on: Jan 24, 2006 RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 16, 2007  9:48 PM 99 views In reply to: RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose — Just I want to confirm that if I worked on SSG5 OR SSG20 extensively I... posted by mnasim on Sep 15, 2007  11:54 PM Again there will be some architectural differences between the ISG and SSG.  But otherwise the ScreenOS is the same.  So if you know one ScreenOS product such as the SSG product you will also be familiar with the ISG.

mnasim Posts: 4 Registered on: Jul 20, 2007 RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 16, 2007  11:52 PM 97 views In reply to: RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose — Again there will be some architectural differences between the ISG and... posted by rkim on Sep 16, 2007  9:48 PM Thanks a lot, for the  architectural difference I will take care, up to my knowledge the Architecture of ISG is based on ASIC and the architecture of SSG is based on X86 architecture . we have option of hardware IDP module in ISG firewall. Also SSG is an UTM device but ISG not : )

jkim Posts: 14 Registered on: Jan 2, 2006 RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose Posted: Sep 21, 2007  7:49 AM 80 views In reply to: RE: Juniper Firewall for Studying purpose — Thanks a lot, for the  architectural difference I will take care, up to... posted by mnasim on Sep 16, 2007  11:52 PM Main difference is the way you troubleshoot the higher end units because of the ASIC. Another key difference is Vsys (virtual system) support. but commandline and webui wise you should be farily comfortable if you've worked on any Screenos. Joe

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