New mailing List I started a new mailing list. this list is for anyone to ask questions about networking design and implimentation. We can help with configuration questions of all gear Juniper, cisco, hp, fortinet….. Also questions reguarding Linux, Solaris �and BSD are welcome as well http://lists.techinvasion.net

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MPLS VPN Services This article with aim to take a in depth look at MPLS and explain how your packets get from one side of the MPLS cloud to another. Hopefully this will give you some perspective that will prove useful in troubleshooting issues in your own MPLS implementations. Most enterprise engineers MPLS experience goes something like this: The …

SSH Brute Force Mitigation in Junos I have several Juniper SRX-210 devices configured in remote offices. One of the biggest problems I have is that there are a lot of people that are constantly running scripts against the ssh daemon. Now I could lock it down to only a specified list of allowed IP addresses. This would be the most secure method but …

Public DMVPN network. I was thinking about a new project idea. I was thinking of setting up a dynamic multipoint VPN concentrator. Put a small LAN behind it with a couple of servers. Put the configuration instructions on a webpage for Juniper and Cisco devices. I was thinking to run BGP routing protocol over the interface as it scales reasonably …

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Using IP SLA with Route-maps I recently came across a problem that is not an uncommon problem that small businesses face. I came up with several solutions to their problems and I thought I would take a minute to discuss one of those solutions. This customer has a business requirement to use a proxy server for all outgoing web traffic. This on the …

Introduction to Filter list for JUNOS Junipers JUNOS is a very robust operating system, not only is the OS very advanced but the ASIC heavy design of Juniper hardware is akin to calorie free chocolate bars! Juniper Filter Lists which are non-stateful packet filters similar to Cisco Access-Lists are compiled and processed using hardware, what this …

New TechCast Posted I have been busy lately, I am in the middle of a Data Center migration at work, which is eating up hours of my personal time, and I have a million other projects on the burner. I have fresh content coming but in the mean time, I did a TechCast on Junos, please view the video at http://www.exiletv.com. Until Next time

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