Juniper root password recovery

One of the things that we all have faced at least one time per life is to lose our password. It could be an email password, Amazon password, or any other type of passwords. Also, administrators may forget the password of the root account of Juniper Junos device. And...

Connecting to Juniper using the console port

In this chapter, you will learn how you can connect to Juniper device to be able to configure it. I will show you how you can do that using the console port that is available on most Juniper devices. Also, I will show you what softwares you need to use to be able to...

Exception Traffic on Juniper

Contrary to the transit traffic, exception traffics are traffics that are going to the Juniper device itself and terminating there. Some examples include: Ping to the Juniper router Telnet to the Juniper router SSH to the Juniper router Routing updates The question...

Transit Traffic Processing in Juniper

Transit Traffic is nothing more than the traffic that it comes on the ingress interface of the router, is checked against the routing table, and then is sent from the egress interface of the router. Ingress means inside, and egress means outside. To explain it better,...

Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) in Juniper

We have now a global idea about the Routing Engine, which is inside the Control Plane, let’s see what is the Packet Forwarding Engineer (PFE) which is inside the Forwarding Plane. Juniper defines the PFE as the muscle of the device. Why the muscle of the device?...

Routing Engine (RE) in Juniper

Now we have an overall idea about the control plane where the routing engine (RE) is and the forwarding plane where the packet forwarding engine (PFE) is, let’s have more information about the routing engine first. The Routing Engine (RE) is based on X86 or PowerPC...