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Secure Networks Using Juniper Hardware Firewall

Network security is an important fact for all type of business. If network is not secure it will affect the security of your organisation. Firewalls are normaly using for internet security. Firewalls have ability to protect from virus, worms and network attacks.

Firewall from Juniper Networks is a purpose-built security appliance that delivers a perfect rated performance, security and LAN\WAN connectivity for small branch office and small business deployments. Traffic flowing in and out of the branch office can be protected from worms, Spyware, Trojans, and malware by a complete set of Universal Threat Management (UTM) security features including Stateful firewall, IPSec VPN, IPS, Antivirus , Anti-Spam, and Web Filtering. Juniper have diffrent types of firewalls. It known as a traditional branch office router or as a combination security and routing device to help reduce IT capital and operational expenditures.

Features & Benefits

  • One ScreenOS image across the entire product line
  • Stable firewall inspection to stop application level attacks
  • Site-to-site VPN to establish secure communications between offices across the Internet
  • Virtual Router support to make internal, private or overlapped IP addresses to a new IP address
  • Decustomised security zones. Multiple interfaces can be bound to a single security zone for ease of administration.
  • Transparent mode to allow the device to function as a Layer 2 IP security bridge, providing firewall, VPN and DoS protections with minimal network change
  • Configuration via graphical web UI, CLI (console, telnet or ssh) or Juniper’s NSM product
  • IPv6 support
  • Multiple routing protocols supported including: OSPF, BGP, RIP v1/v2
  • Wireless options on some of the products in the SSG family
  • Modular expansions in most units to support other WAN or LAN interfaces depending upon the SSG model often replacing existing routers and yielding additional cost savings and recurring expenses

Juniper Netscreen Commands

Interface

get counter statistics Show interface statistics (CRC errors etc)
get interface trust port phy Show physical ports for a certain zone
get driver phy Show all link states of interfaces
get counter statistics interface ethernet3 Show hardware stats on interface
set interface [interface] no-subnet-conflict-check Allows you to configure multiple interfaces in the same

IP broadcast domain.

Current Settings / Values

get envar get environment variable
get config get device configuration
get system get system information
get arp get arp cache
get route get routing table
get system | i Box get port-mode
get alg h323 counters get the ALG counters
get alg get status of ALGs (disabled or enabled)
get sys-cfg get default settings for the device
get sys scale get basic system limits
get debug get currently enabled debug level
get tcp get system socket information

NAT

get mip get mip (nat)
get vip get vip (nat)
get nat cookie get show nat cookies

Statistics / Performance

get perf cpu detail get cpu performance
get session info get load on firewall
get counter flow Show flow stats (fragmentation etc)
get counter screen Show screen stats (SYN Floods etc)

VPN

clear ike-cookie [gateway ip] clear ike cookies
clear sa [id] clear sa
get vpn show vpns

NSRP

get nsrp cluster Show cluster info
get nsrp monitor Show list of monitored interfaces
get nsrp vsd id 0 Show VSD id 0
get counters ha Show HA interface hardware counters
exec nsrp sync global-config check-sum Allows you to see if the cluster configs are syncronised
exec nsrp sync global save Sync’s the nodes.A reboot is required to complete the update.
exec nsrp vsd-group 0 mode Fails over the cluster. Run this command on the Master node.

IGMP

set interface ethernet0/1 igmp router enable IGMP on interface eth0/1
get vrouter trust-vr protocol pim get the multicast sources visible to your ScreenOS device

Misc

set exec port-mode set the port mode
set flow tcp-mss 1460 sets the MSS

I think it is very useful for network admins. Share your comments about it in the comments box below 🙂

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