Sorry for the lack of posts lately – I recently got married, had a honeymoon, and was fired all within the last month. Stick around, I’ll be sure to post more when I get a new gig – until then I’ll just stick with my on the side consulting services.

I’m not too familiar with Juniper stuff as every place that I’ve been employed only used Cisco/less than Cisco gear. However, at a recent client I was given the task of rebooting a Netscreen that was acting up. Uptime on the netscreen50 was at 410 days (they don’t patch much), but I’ve heard of routers and switches going for several years between reboots. However, this router is an outward facing router with VPN support.

To reboot, log into the web interface (GUI stands for Graphical User Interface). Then navigate to Configuration, Update, ScreenOS/Keys. You’ll see at the bottom of this screen a “Reset” button. Click this button – the netscreen will then ask if you are sure you want to perform this action. Obviously if you want to reboot it click OK, otherwise click cancel.

Within a few minutes you should be back up and running.