{"id":1367,"date":"2010-01-06T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2010-01-06T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:03:56","slug":"guess-who-came-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who Came To Visit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05498.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05498\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05498.jpg 360w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05498-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freebies<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1369\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05499.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05499\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05499.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSC05499-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Got me a couple of books \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>They happened to be in the area, so they dropped by to say hello.  I really enjoyed their presentation style and the Account Manager, Darian, is a pretty cool cat.  I&#8217;ve always wanted to learn the Netscreens(Juniper firewall appliance), so it looks like it might be time to do it.  From what I&#8217;m told, JunOS(the Juniper OS), has the firewall engine built in now.  The JOS and the Netscreens are two separate animals, though.  If I can get one, perhaps I&#8217;ll do a &#8220;30 days with a Netscreen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Security aside, the routing engine will be interesting to learn also. \ud83d\ude42  They have some cool features, and I&#8217;m not sure which cover the NDA I signed, so I&#8217;ll just keep them to myself&#8230;heh.  I do like the idea of a single code train that runs across all their equipment(almost all, some of their appliances run specific OSs).  They do 4 major releases a year with maintenance builds in between.  It also looks like you pretty much get everything with the OS, you don&#8217;t have to license every piece you want&#8230;which I think is pretty cool.  I like the idea of being able to take a smaller, older piece of gear and being able to lab everything on it.  Good luck building an MPLS lab with Cisco 1600s&#8230;hehehe.<\/p>\n<p>*Thanks for the spelling correction Jimmy*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They happened to be in the area, so they dropped by to say hello. 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