Juniper -vs- Cisco

I've used Cisco equipment for years and have gotten fairly comfortable with getting around in IOS. Lately, in my role as administrator for Peak Webhosting I've been working on Juniper routers, and it's just been a delight. Such a clean command interface with features that I so much wish Cisco had. Hell, I just wish Cisco could pick one interface and stick with it.

A few of the tidbits that I ran across that are so nice:

"show | compare" does a "diff" between the proposed configuration and the saved one, and it makes it clear what changes have been made.

"commit check" parses the updated configuration and reports errors without installing anything, and this caught a netmask error that would have been painful to clean up after the fact.

There's more, of course, and none of this addresses the quality of the underlying hardware, but I surely can see the difference between a great command interface and a crappy one.

Posted by Steve at February 19, 2003 08:21 AM | TrackBack