Training and Certification

Hello,

I really appreciate the effort that Juniper has put into the study guides and the computer-based training videos for the JNCIA and the higher exams. However, I think that candidates studying for Juniper exams, especially the JNCIA-JUNOS will still need a simulator that can emulate a real-life router and switch in operation.

The simulators I have seen out there good but not excellent. Hence I believe that if Juniper can produce one for its partners and people intending to become Juniper certified, this would be great.

I anticipate the soonest reply of a Juniper employee to my humble request.

Thanks,

Kunle,

U.K.

Hi Kunie,

Your points are well taken.  Short answer (as you know), there is currently no Juniper simulator.  Your best option at this point is rack time through a training partner.  If you search this forum you will find some good discussion on where to rent lab equipment, etc.

Regards,

Kieran MIlne

Tech Lead, JNCP

Hello Kieran,

I want you to understand that rack time is expensive and Internet-dependent. That is the problem with rack time. I know that there is no route or switch simulator from Juniper , but I would like Juniper to kindly consider this in 2011.

My name is Kunle and not kunie.

Thanks.

Hi Kunle, (apoloiges for the mistake last time)

I hear you on the difficulties with these other options, the intent was to make sure you knew they existed.

A Juniper simulator is something that is being discussed internally, as there is definitely a good deal of demand for one.

Cheers,

Kieran

Although late to reply, but you can run qemu and over it JUNOS.

Below is the link for the step by step how to run JUNOS : )

http://muralirajanm.blogspot.com/

HTH

Nasim

Nasim, that video on your blog was FANTASTIC!!!!!

Lovely, Lovely, Lovely !!!!!!!!

Nice one, thanks!

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@Nasim wrote:

Although late to reply, but you can run qemu and over it JUNOS.

 

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IIRC one of the unfortunate things about running Junos in Qemu is that you don't have access to a real PFE (ASICs and Packet Forwarding Engine) therefore can't do a lot of things that are hardware dependent like transit firewall-filters, QoS, and other similar items.  Certainly, Junos on Qemu is beneficial for learning the CLI, and you can certainly do many things like learning routing protocols as these all run within the control plane.

For these other topics, it certainly makes sense to try and obtain some rack time.  And despite what you might think, there are offerings out there that are very reasonably priced and in fact that are a few folks out there that have actually put up their labs online for others to use completely free.

Good luck!

Please see my reply on your original post.

Please can anyone educate me on the most effective way to prepare for the JNCIS-SEC exam without ending up as a "paper-based JNCIS-SEC" if I cannot afford a 2000 dollar bootcamp, and I have only 1 SRX100 to practice with ?

Thank you.

The Fast Track portal has some very good and free information to get you started with SRX / Junos Security.

If you want to avoid being a "paper-based JNCIS-SEC," there is no substitute for real-world experience.  Sorry, but without actual experience running the systems in production, you're limited to what you can learn from academic research and lab simulations.

Kieran, is it possible to practice the following configurations on a laptop connection to a single SRX device.

1. Configuring NTP, DNS, SNMO, and Syslog.

2. Configuring services, address books, and security policies.

3. Configuring NAT.

I anticipate your soonest favourable reply.

Kunle.

Hi Kunle,

Sure, you could do much of that using the setup you describe.  You can also segment the SRX into multiple logical routers to create a multi-device setup.

Regards,

Kieran

Can anyone please tell me how to create multiple logical routers on a single SRX 100 device?

Thanks.

Kunle,

U.K.

I reckon you wouldn't be able to create logical router on SRX210. You can do this on high end SRX with new 11.x release in the future.

You can't do logical systems on an SRX but you can create virtual routers and interconnect them using LT interfaces. For routing labs thats very useful, I have a little SRX100 that I use to test BGP/OSPF/.. setups and it works fine. It sure beats having en entire rack full of equipment and manually repatching everything all the time.

No MPLS though, for that you'll need the logical systems from an MX. The high-end SRX might have the logical systems functionality but can't do mpls.