Comments on: JUNOS First Impressions

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:41:40 +0000

True. Cisco has caught up a bit, but it still isn’t supported natively and not too many people out there know of the Archive feature.

By: Laith Z.

Laith Z. — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:21:33 +0000

IOS has a rollback feature called archive. You can find documentation on Cisco’s website.

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:17:51 +0000

Haha, yea, I hear ya.

I thought it was something cool I’d never heard of, you had me all excited.

By: That1guy15

That1guy15 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:51:41 +0000

@Colby: sorry I meant Olives. My mind was somewhere else yesterday

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:42:13 +0000

@that1guy: Yea, I’ve read that the new GNS3 supports Olives (is that what you mean by beans?). Definitely jump into JUNOS whenever you get time, it’s fun to see how other vendors do things.

@Jason: Everyone keeps telling me they like it better than IOS, but I can’t imagine why.:-P I have two Olives setup on my ESX box, and a J2300 in transit to my house. My post today is about my experiences playing with the Olives.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:17:41 +0000

Man, once you know JunOS, you’ll wonder where it’s been all your life!

Some show commands give you far more info than IOS will. ‘show route extensive’ for example tells you exactly why a route wasn’t installed into fib.

You have an Olive setup yet? Very handy, especially connecting to Ciscos via dynagen/gns

By: that1guy15

that1guy15 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:01:03 +0000

Just checking out your blog from your link on EE

Did you know that GNS3 now supports JUNOS though the QEMU package!! I am very excited about that. I have wanted to jump into the JUNOS world for a while just have not had the hardware. I have read about beans (or VM images of JUNOS) but have not had the time to dig into them.

Look forward to your adventures.

That1guy15

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:58:21 +0000

You say it’s pretty simple, but you didn’t know how to do any of the advanced stuff I asked you.:-P

You can do some of the commands in one line, but a lot of them need multiple lines, like adding user accounts, and route policies, etc. I’m still learning though, maybe it will continue to grow on me.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:39:38 +0000

Once you get past the Hierarchy of Junos it’s really pretty simple. Working with the J2350 has been a challenge, but has been a learning experience. It is not IOS by any stretch of the imaginations.

The biggest thing that I like and I know you say you hate it, but I like how you can do most of the commands in 1 line.

I’m waiting to see blog posts about this too

By: Colby

Colby — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:24:23 +0000

@Rob: I wish Cisco would rip them off, lol. I’d love to have those features in IOS. I went through JSL pretty thoroughly yesterday, it was helpful (I even have a blog post about it ).

@Jared: I’m glad there’s some interest in JUNOS posts. I’ll add that to the top of the list, hopefully I can throw something together in the next few days.