JUNOS Enterprise Routing

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to gratefully and enthusiastically acknowledge the work of many professionals who assisted us in the development of the material for this book. Although our names are printed on the book as authors, in reality no author works alone. The contributions of many people have made this book possible, and others have assisted us with their technical accuracy, typographical excellence, and editorial inspiration.

Many thanks are owed to the official technical editors of this material. Mario and Jack were extremely responsive to the demanding needs of our schedule. Your attention to detail and wealth of knowledge no doubt saved us many an embarrassing bit of errata. To this end, we also thank Colleen Gorman for her fine developmental editing, and Audrey Doyle for her thorough copyediting, that resulted in a much improved experience for you, the reader.

We would also like to acknowledge Juniper Networks in general, for the assistance provided on various fronts, and specifically Monear Jalal, David Ranch, and Jerish Parapurath, for their efforts in making Chapter 11 possible. We also extend thanks to Jonathon Looney, who volunteered to provide a technical review for the services chapters (Chapter 7, Chapter 8, and Chapter 11), for his detailed knowledge of JUNOS software with enhanced services, and for the inspiration he provided with regard to the BGP policy treatment. We would also like to thank Chris Heffner, who provided the routers used for this book via http://www.certified-labs.com/, with a price that could not be matched—free of charge.

Thanks also to Matt Kolon, for taking time from his busy schedule to evaluate the material, and for his inspirational Foreword.

And last but not least, special thanks to Jason Rogan and Patrick Ames for their assistance and behind-the-scenes activations that made this effort possible. They were the ones that really pushed the ideas of two wacky authors into a reality.

From Doug Marschke

I would like to acknowledge all my friends who helped me through this very time-consuming and, at times, stressful effort with many words of encouragement and well-timed stress relievers. I would like to thank Becca Morris in particular for her free time spent correcting my horrible grammar to avoid embarrassment before editorial submission. I would also like to thank my roommate, Catherine la O', for putting up with the man writing in the cave. Of course, I would be remiss if I did not thank my furry quadruped friend, Josh, who was by my side the entire time, offering a woof to any potential distracters.

From Harry Reynolds

I would like to acknowledge my wife, Anita, and two lovely daughters, Christina and Marissa, for once again understanding and accommodating my desire to engage in this project. Also, special thanks to my managers at Juniper Networks, Corinne Rattay and Sreedhevi Sankar, for their understanding and support. I really appreciate their willingness to accommodate the occasional glitch in my “day job” schedule that was needed to make this happen. Lastly, I’d like to thank Doug Marschke (whose name I can never spell, but shall never forget), for offering me the chance to participate in this project. I take great pride in seeing how far Doug has come in his professional career and fully expect to find myself working for him one day. You go, Doug!