Juniper SSG 5 learning the CLI

mike1210

mike1210

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Hi All,
I have won an SSG 5 off the bay with 256 meg of RAM. I have done a basic setup with the GUI which is pretty decent but would like to learn more about the CLI aspect of it.

I have an 877W also so was interested to compare it with the Juniper

My question is can anyone recommend a decent book that I can buy to learn the Screen OS? Or would reading guides on the Juniper site be a better way?
Or other sites that you guys know of?

Mike :)
 
Thanks for that, I doubt I'll run the 877W alongside the SSG 5, I've got a Draytek 120 to go in front on the SSG5.

However I'll probbaly still use my Cisco 2940 switch and was thinking of buying a Cisco SG 300-10 but that's at a later date

It will either be 877W > 2940 or Draytek120 > SSG5 > 2940

When I say compare I mean I want to learn about both Cisco and Juniper. I know it's not really a direct comparison. I would like to know for example

Static Natting, Firewall setup, port trunking etc etc and be able to do it with both Juniper and Cisco kit
 
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wij said:
Why don't you do it properly and use the 877W as your router with minimal ACL's to protect itself and the SSG as the firewall for your LAN? :)
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Could I do that as the 877W is an ADSL router? I'd have to plug the SSG5 into one of the switch ports of the 877.
 
Got it yeah really good condition as well. To be honest the guy really undersold it, didn't put any pics just put snippets of the config and said good condition when to be honest it's better than that.......well unless it fails on me tommorrow:eek:

Now got a Draytek 120 also to go in front of it, that's smaller than I thought.

I ran the wizzard to get it up and running, GUI seems much better than the 877W to be honest. Bought a J-Care contract so will update it as soon as possible. Haven't heard back from the company I got it from yet but only bought it today.

my 877W needs extra flash memory ideally as the IOS are getting big and now my smartnet contract has run out:(
 
ThorpedoUK said:
Did you get your J-Care sorted?
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I finally found somewhere that had one in stock. I dont think I can mention where as it's a competitior. The order is being processed so I haven't got an account yet. I think they just mail me a key or similar so I can register that on the Juniper site.

I've ordered the O'Reilly ScreenOS book to get to grips with the CLI also
 
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