Juniper Networks J-Series User Manual

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Gigabit Ethernet

Serial with HDLC encapsulation

If you configure the DHCP server to provide only the TFTP server hostname, add
an IP address-to-hostname mapping entry for the TFTP server to the DNS database
file on the DNS server in the network.

If the new router is not on the same network segment as the DHCP server (or
other device providing IP address resolution), configure an existing router as an
intermediate to receive TFTP and DNS requests and forward them to the TFTP
server and the DNS server. You must configure the LAN or serial interface on
the intermediate router with the IP addresses of the hosts providing TFTP and
DNS service. Connect this interface to the new router.

If you are using

hostname.conf

files for autoinstallation of host-specific

configuration files, you must also complete the following tasks:

Configure the DHCP server to provide a

hostname.conf

filename to each new

Services Router. Each router uses its

hostname.conf

filename to request a

configuration file from the TFTP server. Copy the necessary

hostname.conf

configuration files to the TFTP server.

Create a default configuration file named

network.conf

, and copy it to the

TFTP server. This file contains IP address-to-hostname mapping entries. If
the DHCP server does not send a

hostname.conf

filename to a new router,

the Services Router uses

network.conf

to resolve its hostname based on its

IP address.

Alternatively, you can add the IP address-to-hostname mapping entry for
the new Services Router to a DNS database file.

The router uses the hostname to request a

hostname.conf

file from the TFTP

server.

Configuring Autoinstallation with a Configuration Editor

No configuration is required on a Services Router on which you are performing
autoinstallation, because it is an automated process. However, to simplify the process
on a router, you can specify one or more interfaces, protocols, and configuration
servers to be used for autoinstallation.

To configure autoinstallation:

1.

Navigate to the top of the configuration hierarchy in either the J-Web or CLI
configuration editor.

2.

Perform the configuration tasks described in Table 42 on page 86.

3.

If you are using the J-Web interface, click Commit to view a summary of your
changes, then click OK to commit the configuration. If you are using the CLI,
commit the configuration by entering the

commit

command.

4.

To check the configuration, see “Verifying Autoinstallation” on page 86.

Configuring Autoinstallation with a Configuration Editor

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Chapter 5: Configuring Autoinstallation

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