Juniper e-Learning Programs
Published By rsivanandan On Saturday, January 10th 2009. Under Juniper
I think it is not of much attention that there are many e-Learning courses available from Juniper FREE of cost. Mostly it is either advised by SE’s or some product road shows. Otherwise, Juniper lacks the publicity that Cisco and MSFT has been carrying over for a long ... Continue Reading
Cisco ASA vs Juniper SSG/ISG firewalls
The latest report on performance from Miercom on Enterprise segment Firewalls goes as this; for real world HTTP (web 2.0) simulated traffic; While this is a performance evaluation of the box by itself, some time back NetworkWorld tested SSG 500 series firewalls from Juniper ... Continue Reading
Policy Based Authentication / Authentication Proxy in Juniper Firewalls
Published By rsivanandan On Thursday, July 17th 2008. Under Juniper
One of the feature that you can achieve using rules in policies on a Juniper Firewall is conditional pass through of traffic. What I mean by that is, to first authenticate the user and if you want that user to access what he is trying then, allow/disallow the ... Continue Reading
Juniper’s EX Switches rock!
An evaluation of Junipers newly launched EX Series switch underwent tests for industry conformance and you can find it at Network World; The verdict: This is one fast box. The EX 4200 delivered line-rate throughput in every case, the only ... Continue Reading
Mixed Mode Configuration of Juniper Firewalls
Published By rsivanandan On Saturday, July 12th 2008. Under Juniper
Juniper Firewalls can be configured in Nat/Route mode or Transparent mode, in simple terms L3 or L2 mode. L3 :: Pure route mode where all the interfaces bear ip addresses and routing is run. L2 :: Pure layer2 mode where all the interfaces are pass along ... Continue Reading
VPN to Juniper Firewall – using XP Client
It is advisable to use the Netscreen-Remote that comes as the vpn client, however if one has to use XP client for connecting to a Juniper Firewall, here is how to do; This example talks about L2TP over IPSEC { GO } ... Continue Reading
VPN between Cisco PIX and Juniper Netscreen Firewall
Found out today that Cisco has a configuration guide for VPN between PIX firewall to a Juniper Netscreen Firewall {Click to Go} ... Continue Reading
Juniper Security Threat Response Manager – STRM
Published By rsivanandan On Tuesday, May 27th 2008. Under Juniper
There are different market players when it comes to Threat Management / Log Management /Compliance Management; It ranges from netForensics, Cisco's CS-MARS, LogLogic, netIQ, ArcSight and so on... STRM is Juniper's entry to the log management market offering solutions which along with log management provides some Network Behavior ... Continue Reading
NSM Attack Update over Proxy (Squid)
Published By rsivanandan On Monday, May 19th 2008. Under Juniper
Juniper's NSM Attack update is something which will go over to Juniper's security server and download the latest available IDP signature sets. There are situations where the NSM server do not have Internet connection, thus having to use a proxy solution. You can use Squid Proxy for handling this; ... Continue Reading
Juniper Policy Based VPN vs Route Based VPN
Published By rsivanandan On Sunday, May 18th 2008. Under Juniper
While using Juniper Firewall devices, there are 2 ways of creating an IPSEC VPN, route based and policy based. There has been a lot of discussions around this area as to what is the difference. However there is one important way of differentiating these 2 types of VPN. ... Continue Reading


