New Training: Understand Junos Route Policies

In this 8-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Knox Hutchinson discusses one of the more complicated parts of Junos configuration – the Route Policy. Watch this new Juniper training.

Learn Juniper with one of these courses:

• Junos Routing Policy and Firewall Filters

• Juniper JNCIA-Junos

This training includes:

• 8 videos

• 51 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introducing Route Policies

• The Point of Route Policies

• The Point of Route Redistribution

• The Structure of a Route Policy

• Route Filters and Prefix Lists

• Adding Route Policy Rules with Terms

• Digging a Little Bit Deeper into Route Policies

• Summarizing Route Policies

Junos Gives Different Protocols a Clearing House to Work Out Their Differences

Imagine you had RIP running and wanted to configure redistribution from RIP over to OSPF. If you were using a routing platform vendor other than Junos, you might find a way for RIP to interact with OSPF directly so that one can instruct the others’ processes directly. But not so with a Juniper device.

When working in a Junos OS environment, the routing protocols don’t actually have much direct interaction with one another. Rather than have the protocols sort their redistributions on their own, Junos has special unicast routing tables that act as central gathering points where the protocols install their routing information.

This might seem like a subtle difference without much significance, but it’s important to understanding routing decisions in enterprise networks. The protocols use those tables to calculate routes to all destinations and those are placed in a forwarding table and can be advertised to neighbors. Configuring these routing policies can be complicated, but provides a different level of control over interactions between different protocols.