JUNOS High Availability

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to gratefully and unabashedly acknowledge many of our peers, editors, and advisers over the long course of writing this book. We began naively and finished as book-writing experts mostly because of the leadership of many of our associates.

First, we must thank Patrick Ames, Juniper Networks’ editor in chief for its technical book program. Without him you would not be holding this volume in your hand or viewing it on your monitor. Second, Aviva Garrett, author of JUNOS Cookbook (O’Reilly), performed a marvelous final edit of our work, putting in countless hours and raining down incredible suggestions. Third, Colleen Toporek, our developmental editor, slogged through our first missives and gently guided us toward the O’Reilly benchmarks of excellence. Finally, our copyeditor, Audrey Doyle, took it all in and masterfully made it sync together. These four, along with Mike Loukides, Marlowe Shaeffer, Robert Romano, and countless others at O’Reilly, formed a team that helped to create a book that is greater than the sum of its authors. Thank you all.

We would also like to thank Juniper Networks, the employer of three of the four authors, for allowing us the resources and occasional bandwidth to work on this project, and the many people who contributed to this book in a thousand little ways, from hallway conversations to in-depth emails explaining one thing or another; Fred Stringer, who helped us at the very beginning while we were still proposing the book; Chris Hellberg for sparking the book idea—no more busting routers, mate; and Anton Bernal and Gonzalo Gomez Herrero for contributing to the early discussions and providing many fresh ideas. We note that Abhilash Prabhakaran was the original writer and Ben Mann and Joanne McClintock the editors of the material in Appendix C, which we condensed and abbreviated for the reader’s benefit. And finally, we want to especially reserve our admiration for the team of additional technical reviewers from Juniper Networks who worked on tight schedules and limited resources: Majid Ansari, Nathan Day, Jasun Rutter, and Jared Gull.

James Sonderegger would personally like to thank his wife, Bonnie, and children, Gabby, Riley, Cat, and William, for their patience and unwavering support through the year it took to finish this project.

Orin Blomberg would personally like to thank his wife, Holly, for all her support during the writing of the book.

Kieran Milne would like to first thank and acknowledge his daughter, Sarah. Then, he would like to extend deep appreciation to Will Pincek, Stacy Smith, and Elna Wells for making Juniper Networks an amazing place to work. He would also like to thank James Sonderegger for inviting him to join this project and Patrick Ames for keeping the project on track and moving forward.

Senad Palislamovic would like to thank his Guide for allowing him to complete this project; and his parents and beautiful wife for their love and support during long sleepless weekends. Special thanks go to James Sonderegger, Orin Blomberg, and Kieran Milne for all the extra cycles devoted to the project; Aviva Garrett for pulling all-nighters rewriting his lines and still meeting the deadline; Fred Stringer for his High Availability mentorship; and his old and new managers for letting him slack, Michael Kozich and Michael Langdon. Final thanks go to all of those who gave him space throughout the past year; Senad is still your friend.