Juniper Lab Kurulumu – Qemu ve Olive

Juniper routerlarda kullanılan işletim sistemi olan Junos aslinda linux kernel üzerinde derlenmiş ve özünde FreeBSD olan bir işletim sistemi.Dolayısı ile routerın control plane ortamını bir PC üzerinde oluşturmak ve bu platform ile Juniper lab kurmak mümkün.PC'de çalışan Junos'a Olive ismi veriliyor. Olive aslinda bir codename ve Juniper tarafından desteklenmiyor ancak engellenmiyor da detaylar icin bu linki inceleyebilirsiniz. Özetle denmiş ki:

Juniper's official position is that Olive does not exist. Considering that Olive is an unsupported and unsupportable platform using "free" (aka illegally licensed) software, this is not an unreasonable official position.

Olive is essentially a hackers platform, with absolutely no support of any kind, and it is not suitable for any type of commercial use. If you are in any doubt, or if you are not able to figure it out, you should invest in a low-cost platform such as J-Series instead.

It is also important to remember that Olive exists because Juniper allows it to exist, and is a testament to the mutual respect between the extremely knowledgeable developer and user bases.

If the Olive platform became widely abused, Juniper could easily add additional software checks to prevent it from working.