Configuring Juniper Networks Firewall/IPsec VPN Products

Course Overview

This course is the first in the ScreenOS curriculum. It is a three-day, instructor-led course that focuses on configuration of the ScreenOS firewall/virtual private network (VPN) products in a variety of situations, including basic administrative access, routing, firewall policies and policy options, attack prevention features, address translation, and VPN implementations.

This course is based on ScreenOS version 6.3r14. Configuring Juniper Networks Firewall/IPsec VPN Products is an introductory-level course.

Target Audience

This course is intended for network engineers, support personnel, reseller support, and others responsible for implementing Juniper Networks firewall products.

Course Objectives

• After you complete this course you will be able to:
• After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
• Explain the ScreenOS security architecture.
• Configure administrative access and options.
• Back up and restore configuration and ScreenOS files.
• Configure a ScreenOS device in transparent, route, Network Address Translation (NAT), and IP version 6 (IPv6) modes.
• Discuss the applications of multiple virtual routers.
• Configure the ScreenOS firewall to permit and deny traffic based on user defined policies.
• Configure advanced policy options.
• Identify and configure network designs for various types of network address translation.
• Configure policy-based and route-based VPN tunnels.

Course Content

• Chapter 1:Course Introduction
• Chapter 2:ScreenOS Concepts, Terminology, and Platforms
• Security Device Requirements
• ScreenOS Security Architecture
• Juniper Networks Platforms
• Chapter 3:Initial Connectivity
• System Components
• Establishing Connectivity
• Verifying Connectivity
• Lab 1: Initial Configuration
• Chapter 4:Device Management
• Management
• Recovery
• Lab 2: Device Administration
• Chapter 5:Layer 3 Operations
• Need for Routing
• Configuring Layer 3
• Verifying Layer 3
• Loopback Interface
• Interface-Based NAT
• Lab 3: Layer 3 Operations
• Chapter 6:Basic Policy Configuration
• Functionality
• Policy Configuration
• Common Problems
• Global Policy
• Verifying Policies
• Lab 4: Basic Policy Configuration
• Chapter 7:Policy Options
• Overview
• Logging
• Counting
• Scheduling
• User Authentication
• Lab 5: Policy Options
• Chapter 8:Address Translation
• Scenarios
• NAT-src
• NAT-dst
• VIP Addresses
• MIP Addresses
• Lab 6: Address Translation
• Chapter 9:VPN Concepts
• Concepts and Terminology
• IP Security
• Chapter 10:Policy-Based VPNs
• Configuration
• Verifying Operations
• Lab 7: Policy-Based VPNs
• Chapter 11:Route-Based VPNs
• Concepts and Terminology
• Configuring VPNs
• Verifying Operations
• Lab 8: Route-Based VPNs
• Chapter 12:IPv6
• IPv6 Concepts
• Configuration
• Verifying IPv6 Operations
• Lab 9: IPv6
• Appendix A: Additional Feature
• Hardware
• Appendix B: Transparent Mode
• Description
• Configuration
• Verifying Operations
• Lab: Transparent Mode (Optional)

Course Prerequisites

This course assumes that students have basic networking knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• The Internet;
• Networking concepts; and
• Terms including TCP/IP, bridging, switching, and routing.

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