Tag: <span>JunOS</span>

It is recommended to implement the separation of management and data/customer traffic in your Juniper devices (e.g. QFX Series Switches, MX Series).  Traffic passing through the management plane should be exclusively for management or administrative access purposes only like SSH, SNMP, NTP and AAA. Here’s the recommended configuration or practices for these management services. Configure Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) -preferably to setup centralized TACACS+ to manage all your devices, implement central network management that can impose security protocol to…

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One of the best security practices in networking is separation of management traffic and data/control traffic. One way to achieve this is to use the management ports of Juniper devices to physically connect it preferably to different network. The management Ethernet interface is usually em0 or fxp0 in Juniper, and provides out-of-band(OOB)management network of the device. Assuming UTP cables are already connected to both management ports of both routing engine (RE) of the Juniper devices, here are the steps to…

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