Five Years Later…

Posted by on July 11, 2012 2 comments

Five years ago, on this exact date, around this same time as now I walked out of a room in De Kleetlaan 6 in Diegem near Brussels feeling humbled, but not humiliated after taking my CCIE Service Provider lab exam for the first time.

I walked down the pathway to the hotel, where I happen to be right now (NH Hotel) and had a crocodile steak for dinner. In couple of hours from that moment, I found out I became a CCIE #18427 on my first attempt.

Today, exactly five years from that moment at almost the exact spot, I’m helping 12 other engineers fulfill their dream of becoming a CCIE by teaching a CCIE bootcamp.

What a professional journey last five years have been!

She became She only a couple of weeks later. Soon, we’ll be three :-).

OSPF Database on Junos: NSSA External (Type 7) LSA

Posted by on February 24, 2012 No comments

In this article, I will take a look into OSPF database on Junos and see what kind of information I can dig out for NSSA External LSAs, which are crucial for the propagation of external (exported) routes in OSPF NSSA areas. In this article, I get to have a little bit fun at Juniper’s expense… or mine? Read more »

Junos Approach to BGP Cluster-ID and Originator-ID

Posted by on February 20, 2012 1 comment

Couple of days ago I wrote an article for IPexpert’s CCIE blog about BGP Cluster-ID and Originator-ID. When I did that, I got curious whether Junos is handling things any differently. Working assumptions is not, but I wanted to prove it and in the process practice my Junos-fu. Read more »

OSPF Database on Junos: External (Type 5) and ASBR Summary (Type 4) LSA

Posted by on February 18, 2012 No comments

In this article, I will take a look into OSPF database on Junos and see what kind of information I can dig out for External and ASBR Summary LSAs, which are crucial for the propagation of external (exported) routes in OSPF. Read more »

OSPF Database on Junos: Network Summary (Type 3) LSA

Posted by on February 15, 2012 No comments

In this article, I will take a look into OSPF database on Junos and see what kind of information I can dig out for Network Summary LSAs, which are crucial for inter-area (multiple area) OSPF operations. Read more »

OSPF Database on Junos: Router (Type 1) and Network (Type 2) LSA

Posted by on February 13, 2012 2 comments

In this article, I will take a look into OSPF database on Junos and see what kind of information I can dig out for Router and Network LSAs, which are crucial for intra-area (single area) OSPF operations. Read more »

The Junosphere Experience, Part Three – Topology Files

Posted by on February 11, 2012 1 comment

In the previous article, I briefly mentioned that Junosphere users can load their own topology files. In this article, I will explain some basics of these files. Read more »

The Junosphere Experience, Part Two – Using Junosphere

Posted by on February 11, 2012 6 comments

In the previous article, I described the steps I went through to get access to Junosphere. It wasn’t smooth, but it worked. In this post, I’ll take a look at the actual experience of using Junosphere. Read more »

The Junosphere Experience, Part One – Getting Access

Posted by on February 11, 2012 4 comments

Late last year, Juniper Networks announced a phenomenal service called Junosphere. It’s, essentially, a cloud-based platform for device and network emulation. For those familiar with Dynamips/GNS3, Junosphere is very similar only hosted by Juniper and fully supported by JTAC. This article describes my experience with Junosphere. Read more »

Series Announcement: OSPF Database on Junos

Posted by on February 6, 2012 2 comments

Since I started my journey into Junos studies recently, I am curios to translate my IOS skills into the new environment. One of my strong networking areas is a fairly deep understanding of OSPF and its implementation in IOS. In the next few articles, I will try to explore the same aspects in Junos. Read more »