Well,

Ran out of money for racing, so had to give up seriousness for it for the rest of the year. Sold the Subaru, and added $500 to our monthly budget between payment and insurance, and should be ready for the wife to start school full-time next year budget wise. With the proceeds from selling the Subaru, picked up this:

Needed a bit of work, so I got it pretty cheap. BMW 328i, $4,500, w/ 125,000 miles, which is pretty much just broken in for the BMW M series engines. (not M3, but M52 engine) I was racing my last BMW with 225,000 miles on the odometer.

I've had it to an autocross already, and a track day, just to stress test it a bit. Should be a nice daily driver.

Getting back on the study horse for CCNP. Want to get this done by the end of the year, but I've said that before.

Rebuilt a computer with win7 64, and just installed GNS3 0.8.3, which is a real joy compared to some earlier versions.

Starting this weekend. Hope to test for Route by the end of August.

Just a heads up post. Looks like Cisco has set the end-of-life for the CCIP. As if it wasn't confusing enough, we now have, in addition to the CCNP-SP Operations, a CCNP-SP. https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccnp_service_provider Being that I work for a service provider, it looks pretty tasty, but, unfortunately, since it's a new certification training materials will probably not follow for another year, based on previous new certs. Four new tests: SPROUTE SPADVROUTE SPEDGE SPCORE I'll likely still pursue the R/S CCNP Route first.

Too much racing to post much for a while. Had to sell my main GNS3 computer to pay for parts for the race car...

Be back soon.

I've also taken up the editing of our Local Autocross Club's Blog.

http://www.spokes.org/weblog/

Added configs to the CBT Nuggets cisco BGP Lab 1 post

I realized that I hadn't added configs to Cisco BGP lab one and wanted to review the material anyway since I'm looking at Junos BGP now, so I re-worked the lab and added the configs to the original BGP lab 1 post.

Basic JUNOS OSPF configuration

this is pretty basic:

And some the typical check your work commands. Pretty much the same as Cisco.

Next JUNOS walkthroughs

Next JUNOS walkthrough will be OSPF configuration, then BGP, and then likely Firewall Filters.

I'll likely get something up tonight.

Lil' break in studying.

I have two 7 hour endurance races this weekend. My first wheel-to-wheel experience. If there are no posts, it's probably because it didn't go well... ;-)

Basic Junos interface configuration

Thought I'd just throw these in here. Pretty self explanatory. I show the options available for each step of the command.

You can go directly to setting the interface IP without going into edit interface level by typing the whole command.

set interfaces em0 unit 0 family inet address 0.0.0.0/24 

Obviously the ability to enter the subnet mask in CIDR is different, and pretty handy.

Junos router initial login and configuration

Ok, I've built a small mixed Cisco/Juniper Network for OSPF studying and here is some of what I've learned as I go.

To start with, after dragging your Junos device(assuming you have your QEMU junos instance, or however you are getting to Junos up in GNS3), you will open console and get this, or something similar:

Note: when getting out of Junos windows, you have to ctrl+Alt. 

It's important to note that this boot process on your machine may take quite awhile. I don't know if it is processor or ram limited, but on my fairly robust Core i5 box with 16 gb ram, it takes 5 minutes or so. Some people on the GNS3 forums were making the assumption that they weren't getting in, I think, simply because they didn't wait long enough.

Eventually you will get a login prompt.

(you won't see the password request  on first access)

At the login prompt, you will want to enter ROOT access, so amazingly, you type "ROOT" Which will get you to the root access. Then to get to CLI from there, if a password has not been set, you once again, surprisingly, type "CLI" ;-)

And then you are here...

now to enter config level, you can type configure, or Edit.

From here, for example, you can configure the host-name etc.

FYI, if you want to run show commands from configure level, like using "do" in IOS, you need to type "run"

I'll run a show interface for the ethernet 0 interface. Note: The interface is named "em0"

To save any changes in the Junos, you will have to set the Root-Authentication. This allows multiple options but for training sake, I'm using a Plain-Text-password.

Once this is set, you can use the "commit" command to save the configuration.

That's all for now. I'll add a configuring an interface post later tonight.

***edit*** 

Yeah, obviously haven't gotten to this yet. Probably tonight.

Changing gears, working towards the JNO-1 now

After a good bit of thought about it and re-review of the Juniper Cert. Track, I've decided to work towards the first level Juniper Cert, which will be a good match for my CCNA at this point, and the work we are increasingly doing at my job.

So, I'll be preparing for the JNO-101 test, to achieve the JNCIA Associate certification. The next logical step from there would the the JNCIS-SP for service providers. This I will likely shelve until finishing the CCNP.

I hope to test for the JNO-101 by the end of February.