Course Overview
This four-day course provides students with intermediate MX product configuration and performance management in Routing and Switching.
The course includes protocol independent routing features, load balancing and filter-based forwarding, OSPF, BGP, IP tunneling,
and high-availability (HA) features. The course also covers switching concepts such as LANs, Layer 2 address learning, bridging,
virtual LANs (VLANs), provider bridging, provider backbone bridging, VLAN translation, spanning-tree protocols, and Ethernet Operation,
Administration, and Maintenance (OAM).
JUNOS operating system-specific implementations of Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) interfaces,
routing instances, virtual switches, load balancing, and port mirroring are also covered in this course.
The courses covered in this curriculum include:
- JIR
- JSPX
Course Topics
- Configure and monitor static, aggregate, and generated routes
- Configure and share routes between routing instances
- Describe load-balancing concepts and operations
- Implement and monitor Layer 3 load balancing
- Configure and monitor filter-based forwarding
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot OSPF
- Describe BGP and its basic operations
- Configure and monitor BGP
- Describe IP tunneling concepts and applications
- Configure and monitor GRE and IP-IP tunnels
- Identify various high-availability features supported in JUNOS
- Configure and monitor high-availability features
- Describe some differences between IPv4 and IPv6
- List IPv6 address types and describe the IPv6 addressing format
- Configure and monitor routing for IPv6 environments
- Tunnel IPv6 traffic over an IPv4 network
- Explain the operations of IS-IS
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IS-IS
- Describe the different Ethernet standards organizations
- Layer 2 services that are available on the MX Series Universal Edge Routers
- Learning and forwarding in a bridging environment
- Ethernet frame filtering
- VLAN tagging
- IRB
- Layer 2 firewall filters
- Virtual Routers and Virtual Switches
- Implement a virtual switch
- Interconnecting routing instances
- Configure and monitor provider bridging
- Configure and monitor provider backbone bridging
- Configure and monitor Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), and the VLAN Spanning Tree
- Protocol (VSTP)
- Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU), loop, and root protection
- Link Fault Management (LFM)
- Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
- Configure and monitor Ethernet OAM
- Configure and monitor Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP)
Target Audience
Network engineers, support personnel, reseller technical support engineers, and others responsible for implementing the Juniper Networks products covered by the topics included in this class.
Course Outline
Day 1 JIR
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: Protocol-Independent Routing
- Static Routes
- Aggregated Routes
- Generated Routes
- Martian Addresses
- Routing Instances
Chapter 3: Load Balancing and Filter-Based Forwarding
- Overview of Load Balancing
- Configuring and Monitoring Load Balancing
- Overview of Filter-Based Forwarding
- Configuring and Monitoring Filter-Based Forwarding
Chapter 4: Open Shortest Path First
- Overview of OSPF
- Adjacency Formation and the Designated Router Election
- OSPF Scalability
- Configuring and Monitoring OSPF
- Basic OSPF Troubleshooting
Day 2 JIR
Chapter 5: Border Gateway Protocol
- Overview of BGP
- BGP Attributes
- IBGP Versus EBGP
- Configuring and Monitoring BGP
Chapter 6: IP Tunneling
- Overview of IP Tunneling
- GRE and IP-IP Tunnels
- Implementing GRE and IP-IP Tunnels
Chapter 7: High Availability
- Overview of High Availability Networks
- GR
- Graceful RE Switchover
- Nonstop Active Routing
- BFD
- VRRP
Day 3 JSPX
Chapter 2: Carrier Ethernet
- Ethernet in the WAN
- Ethernet Standards Organizations
- MX Series Layer 2 Features
Chapter 3: Ethernet Switching and Virtual LANs
- Ethernet LANs
- Bridging
- Configuring and Monitoring VLANs
- Configuring and Monitoring IRB
- Layer 2 Address Learning and Forwarding
- Layer 2 Firewall Filtering
Chapter 4: Virtual Switches
- Routing Instances Overview
- Configuring and Monitoring Virtual Switches
- Interconnecting Routing Instances
Day 4 JSPX
Chapter 5: Provider Bridging
- Expanding the Bridged Network
- Provider Bridging
- Configuring and Monitoring Provider Bridging
- Provider Backbone Bridging
- Configuring and Monitoring Provider Backbone Bridging
Chapter 6: Spanning-Tree Protocols
- Overview of STP
- Overview of RSTP
- Overview of MSTP
- Overview of VSTP
- Configuring and Monitoring Spanning-Tree Protocols
- Understanding BPDU, Loop, and Root Protection
Chapter 7: Ethernet OAM
- OAM Overview
- LFM
- CFM
- Configuring and Monitoring
All courses are available as open-enrollment Classroom events, instructor-led Live Virtual Classes, REAL-ILT™ or as custom Onsite Training for up to 16 students.
Prerequisites
Students should have basic networking knowledge and an understanding of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and the TCP/IP protocol suite. Students should also have attended the Introduction to Junos Software (IJS) and Junos Routing Essentials (JRE) courses prior to attending this class.