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   One of the best part about Microsoft and Cisco are not just the

products but supporting documentation as well, it is vast and a lot of configuration examples with actual configuration samples.

If you want to load something on to a brand new Cisco device, just Google and just Copy&Paste would take care of minimal configuration and just modification would bring it up in minutes.

Unfortunately the problem with Juniper Documentation is that they can’t match that much of the results from other vendors. For example if I have to learn about NSRP knowledge base and if you just type ‘nsrp’ onto Google, you’ll get a max of 3 or 4 search results that are relevant and even if you get it, it’ll be the basic ‘how to configure kind of stuff’. On the other hand, if you use Google’s advanced searching mechanism, you’ll get much better results on the subject you’re searching. For example;

nsrp site:kb.juniper.net

The above search would yield only the results from Juniper KB site and would have a wide variety of information lined up for you to dig on.

While this is the true for all vendor’s documentation, I just wanted to emphasize the usage of ‘kb.juniper.net’ instead of ‘www.juniper.net’, because there is a difference