Juniper ScreenOS : defeating iBGP full mesh requirement using route reflectors and confederations
As explained in one of my earlier posts, one of the requirements to successfully setup and operate an iBGP configuration is that all iBGP clients need to have a BGP connection to all other iBGP clients. (= full mesh). This is required because an iBGP device only exchanges information about its own networks and it […]
Using Fedora 9 as an OSPF / BGP router (Quagga / Zebra) and set up BGP between Linux and Juniper ScreenOS
In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up a Linux host (Fedora Core 9) and use it as a BGP enabled router. In order to fully understand the setup & configuration, please have a look at this blog post first, because I’ll use the setup in that post as a foundation […]
Build a free SAN with Openfiler
After playing with iSCSI Enterprise Target for a while, I decided to have a look at some other solutions as well. I’m not saying that iSCSI Enterprise Target is not a stable and mature solution, but it lacks some important features (such as snapshots). I came across OpenFiler which seems to be a good (free) […]