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How To Add Juniper Router (JunOS) in GNS3

This document provides instructions for adding Juniper router images to GNS3 to allow for hands-on lab exercises with Juniper devices. It outlines downloading and installing Oracle VirtualBox, obtaining a JunOS Olive VM image, importing the image into VirtualBox, and then configuring the imported VM as a router node in GNS3 to enable JunOS CLI access for configuration.

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How To Add Juniper Router (JunOS) in GNS3

This document provides instructions for adding Juniper router images to GNS3 to allow for hands-on lab exercises with Juniper devices. It outlines downloading and installing Oracle VirtualBox, obtaining a JunOS Olive VM image, importing the image into VirtualBox, and then configuring the imported VM as a router node in GNS3 to enable JunOS CLI access for configuration.

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How To Add Juniper Router (JunOS) in

GNS3
In the previous posts, we have explained a lot, how to use GNS3 to perform Cisco hands-on
lab exercises. Along with Cisco, nowadays Juniper also getting popularity in the routing
platform. However, Juniper has its own internetworking operating system (IOS) called
JunOS. It is based on Linux/Unix platform. In order to perform the hands-on lab exercises in
GNS3 that require Juniper routers, you need to add Juniper router IOS images in GNS3.

Before you could add a Juniper router in GNS3, first, you need to download and install Oracle
VirtualBox on your local system. Alternatively, you can also use VMware Workstation
Player. However, in this guide, we will use Oracle VirtualBox.

Once you have downloaded and installed your virtualization software, next, download the
JunOS Olive VM image. You can download it from the various sources on the Internet, or
you may use the following link to download the JunOS VM image file.

 Download JunOS image file for GNS3

Adding Juniper IOS (JunOS) in GNS3


1. Once you have downloaded the JunOS VM image, next, open the Oracle
VirtualBox console. Click File and select Import Appliance to import an existing

VM.
2. On the Import Virtual Appliance window, click the Browse icon, navigate to the
location where you have downloaded the JunOS image file, select it, and then click

Next.
3. On the Appliance settings page, accept the default resource values or adjust them as
per your requirement, and then click Import as shown in the following figure. The
importing process will begin. It may take 10-15 minutes. Wait until it completes.
4. Once the VM is imported, select it and click Start to power on.

5. If the following error occurs, click Change Network Settings. If the following error
does not occur, skip the next step (step 6) and move on the GNS3 console.

6. On the JunOS Olive – Settings window, make sure that Microsoft KM-TEST
Loopback Adapter is selected, and then click OK. We assume that you have already
installed a loopback adapter on your system.
7. Now, the VM will start. Leave the VM VirtualBox console active and switch to GNS3
console.
8. On the GNS3 console, click Edit, and select Preferences. On the Preferences
window, select VirtualBox VMs in the left pane, and then select New in the right
pane.
9. On the VirtualBox Virtual Machine page, ensure that JunOS Olive VM (Juniper
router IOS image) is selected. If not, select manually and click Finish and close the
Preferences window.

10. In the GNS3 console, drag JunOS Olive router in the work view area. Right-click
JunOS Olive and select Configure to configure it.

11. On the Node Properties dialog box, select the Network tab, and set the number of
adapters as per your requirement.
12. Select the Allow GNS3 to use any configured VirtualBox adapter check box and
click OK.

13. Switch to the JunOS VirtualBox console. At the login prompt, type root as username
and press Enter. The Password is blank.
14. At the next prompt, type cli and press Enter. In the following example, root is the
username and JunOS% is the hostname.

15. In the preceding figure, you can see that you have the JunOS console where you can
execute JunOS commands that are used to configure Juniper routers.

That’s all you need to do to add Juniper router in GNS3. You can add as many Juniper
routers as you wish depending on your local system resource’s capacity. Hope, it will help
you to begin the Juniper hands-on exercises. Please like and share if you find it helpful. You
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