Learn Juniper and Cisco networking – with jokes!
The first in a three-part series explaining Interprovider Option C on Juniper routers! In this post: what is it, and how is it configured? Click here to obtain that 420-69 IQ you’ve always dreamed of.
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BGP Labeled-Unicast is the key to making Interprovider Option C work. So, before we learn how to use Option C to extend an MPLS VPn between two ISPs, let’s learn all about this interesting address family. And if you like, we can even hold hands while we learn!
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Let’s learn how to stretch an MPLS VPN between ISPs using a thing called “Option B”. It involves a little bit of trust between the ISPs – but as we’ll see, it greatly reduces the complexity in configuration!
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Ever wondered whether it’s possible to stretch an MPLS VPN across two ISPs? Well, indeed it is! In fact, there’s three ways to do it, and in this post we learn all about the method officially known as “Option A”.
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Hey there: you smell good! That’s probably because you just read Part 1 of this two-part blog post, where we learned all about BGP communities, and how route-targets are used in MPLS VPNs. Well, now you know the theory, let’s look at a problem ticket. Click here to read Part 2!
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I fixed a ticket recently that I wanted to share with you, because it hits on three big topics at once: BGP communities, MPLS VPNs, and Junos routing policy. In this first of two posts, we’re going to learn about the theory. Click here to read all about BGP communities!
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This is a post about the different ways, and reasons why, we might move prefixes between the inet.3 and inet.0 tables on a Juniper router. You know: like George Clooney does in his spare time. Probably. Don’t look that up.
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In this first of a two-part post, I’m going to take you on a magical journey. And by “take you on a magical journey” I mean “teach you what the inet.3 table does on a Juniper router.” Which is basically the same thing as a magical journey, right?
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