back from holiday, ready for some SRX love

Hi all,

I am back from some holiday. hope you all got some time off also.

For now i am doing some SRX projects (SRX3400), and will post some stuff about this when i finished them.

cu all around.
Frac

Use a ScreenOS device to run JUNOS

Hi All,

Because of the nice coming SRX devices for the Branch, more and more people will need to learn JUNOS. Because most of use are used to work with ScreenOS, we also have more ScreenOS devices then JUNOS ones (SSG320/SSG350/SSG520/SSG550 instead of the J-series).

Well here is a how to, that explains how you can make a usb stick ready to run JUNOS and use this one on a device that is running ScreenOS.

First we need 1 device that runs JUNOS (j-series), on this device we will plug in the USB stick and create a copy of the OS.

root@router>request system snapshot as-primary partition media usb
Clearing current label...
Partitioning usb media (da0) ...
Partitions on snapshot:

Partition Mountpoint Size Snapshot argument
a / 1024MB root-size
e /config 196MB config-size
g /data 701MB data-size
Running newfs (1024MB) on usb media / partition (da0s1a)...
Running newfs (196MB) on usb media /config partition (da0s1e)...
Running newfs (701MB) on usb media /data partition (da0s1g)...
Copying '/dev/ad0s1a' to '/dev/da0s1a' .. (this may take a few minutes)
Copying '/dev/ad0s1e' to '/dev/da0s1e' .. (this may take a few minutes)
The following filesystems were archived: / /config

After this we can use this USB stick to use in a ScreenOS device (or in a JUNOS device)

IF you want to use this USB stick on a JUNOS device do the following:

root@router> request system reboot media usb

This will make the router reboot and boot from USB stick (you can use this to test upgrades for example)

IF you want to use this USB stick on a ScreenOS device do the following:

SSG350M-> System change state to Active(1)

SSG350M->
SSG350M-> set boot junos usb
Boot device has been set to USB
SSG350M->reset
Configuration modified, save? [y]/n n
System reset, are you sure? y/[n] y
In reset ...

After this you will boot in JUNOS (so you are running JUNOS on a ScreenOS device).

When you do a "request system reboot", he will boot back from Compact Flash and will ofcourse run ScreenOS again.

I use this to have a lot of JUNOS devices, because we have a lot of SSG in our lab running ScreenOS. (Most deployed devices at customers are ScreenOS, But this can/will change now with the SRX Branch devices.

GreetZ,
Frac

SecureLink is Juniper Networks Partner of the Year

Hi All,

I am very proud to announce that Securelink is Juniper Networks Partner of the Year.

During the 7th annual Partner Conference in Alicante Juniper Networks announced the appointment of SecureLink as Partner of the Year for Northern Europe. Out of hundreds of European partners SecureLink was rewarded for its constant focus and efforts for Juniper Networks products in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Click here to read more

The Branch SRX

Juniper networks has release the branch SRX firewalls/IDP's.

These SRX (210/240/650) scale from 750 Mbps to 8 Gbps firewalling, 80 Mbps to 900 Mbps IDP, 75 Mbps to 1,5 Gbps VPN and 30 Mbps to 350 Mbps antivirus.

These are crazy figures again. And this isn't the only nice thing, they also support switching PIM's, etc.

Read more about them at here

Redundante VPN tunnels

I made a other movie explaining how redundante vpn's work on juniper firewalls.

hope you enjoy it.

Things I keep struggling with

I love to teach people, give sales people technical updates, presales and do all the architect stuff.

But I always say that you can't do the above stuff if you don’t do all the Technical stuff yourself. This means you also need to do implementations, go into the lab and test new features, etc.

For me this isn’t a real problem, because I love to do the technical stuff. But the biggest problem with this is that most of the time I don’t have the time to do it all.

Also if I want to grow to a higher function (technical manager, service manager, etc). I will have to release some of these tasks. But then again I am convinced you need the technical stuff to be able to do the presales, architect tasks,And I have it very hard to release the deep technical experience.

So the question is …., is there a function where you can still be deep technical and convince people to buy some products, because you believe in them. (If I believe in something (and this mostly based on technical features), I will be a big evangelist of this product.

So the perfect job for me would be something where I can combine these task (deep technical, train people, convince customers (presales), play with the newest features, etc.

The big question is………., those this job exist? (Product marketing engineer, …..)

Let me know what you thing about the above.

GreetZ,
Frac

Movie about Vrouters juniper firewall

Hi All,

I made some movies explaining some features of juniper firewalls. The first one will explain what you can do with "Vrouters" on juniper firewalls. Hope you understand it a bit more after this movie.