The primary reason for this is a single Olive is of little use to me - I aim to use a minimum of three so I can get to grips with the routing protocols and filtering techniques where a single Olive would be next to useless. This long page, only concentrates on running Olive in a VMWare virtual environment - I have no interest in building a real Olive by dedicating a whole PC to the task - not even using dual-boot. I customised a cable to allow me to do this below, but later use some clever free software to create multiple virtual serial ports which I can telnet in to, making physical cables unnecessary.

The recent versions of code after JUNOS 7.4 which stand any chance of detecting your NIC card, can only be accessed through the serial port. Only the earlier versions such as JUNOS 5 allow you to access the CLI through the PC keyboard and VGA output directly (although this view was still not identical to a serial connection). COM1) of a PC, similar to a console port of a router. If you did not know, Olive requires managing through the serial port (e.g. For details of what an Olive box is, please visit here.

One such way of getting CLI time is to build an 'Olive' box which effectively runs JUNOS software on a FreeBSD Unix-like free operating system. Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA-ER exam JN0-341) Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS-ER exam JN0-350)Īs my networking background is traditionally based upon Cisco routing and switching, I thought it would be sensible to get some half-decent CLI time on JUNOS, as opposed to just reading books and PDFs etc. Building a Juniper 'Olive' running latest JUNOS in VMWare Two of my work objectives for FY07/08 are passing two Juniper 'Enterprise Routing track' exams:

Installing junos olive on vmware