Juniper Lab Using Olive
A few months ago, I got my JNCIA-M certification. I had built a small lab on my Dynamips server using Olive. What is Olive? Here is a quote from JuniperClue:
Olive is also the codename name given to JUNOS software running on an PC rather than a Juniper router. A common misconception is that Olive is some sort of “special software”, but it is actually ordinary JUNOS software running on a PC of similar specifications to a Routing Engine, with no forwarding hardware (or PFE) attached. If you took a Routing Engine out of a Juniper router and booted it in a blade server chassis, it would effectively be an Olive.
To get my lab up and running, I basically mashed together instructions both from the Olive page of the JuniperClue wiki, as well as nemith & sartan’s combined effort on the Internetworkpro.org wiki. I rewrote my version specifically to use FreeBSD as the host OS, as that is what I use on my Dynamips server. So, let’s get started…
