Vyatta: Linux-based firewall and router
Article taken from system-administrators.info
At the end of February 2007, Vyatta announced the second version of the distribution developed by it, which allows turning an ordinary PC into a router. This solution is positioned as a competitor to lower-level Cisco and Juniper products. What is so special about Vyatta?
At first there was no distribution. One of the first developments of Vyatta was the Open Flexible Router (OFR) software package, which turns an ordinary PC into a router. Moreover, it was noted that the performance and safety level corresponded to commercial products. From the very beginning, the course was taken for openness, since, according to the developers, this significantly speeds up the elimination of possible shortcomings and contributes to the rapid development of the product and adaptation for all possible conditions. By the way, Vyatta is a Sanskrit word meaning open. The company sees its product as a network equivalent of solutions like Linux or Firefox, although it’s not opposed to Microsoft products, but Cisco Systems.
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Vyatta features
The Vyatta project did not originate from scratch. OFR is based on the eXtensible Open Router Platform (XORP), an open source routing platform operating in a fortified Unix version. It is being developed by a group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Berkeley, led by Atanu Ghosh, funded by such giants as Intel and Microsoft, as well as the National Science Foundation and Vyatta. Currently, the XORP code contains 670,000 term in C ++, can be compiled on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows Server 2003 and distributed under BSD with a similar license.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, with some extensions for IPv6), Routing Information Protocol (RIP v2 for IPv4 and RIPng for IPv6), Protocol-Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Internet Group Management Protocol (OSPFv2 (RFC2328)) are supported and OSPFv3 (RFC2740), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD), OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), IGMP and SNMP.
The company uses the business model used by Red Hat, that is, the manufacturer plans to offer paid services and support for users of Vyatta routers, while the software itself is available for free. distribution that can be used for testing. Although probably not in a hurry, as Vyatta has great potential. So Vyatta supports the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), which allows you to use the router as a backup, immediately taking over the processing in case of a failure of the main one. In addition, Vyatta includes the development of more than 60 different Open Source projects and its own code.
References:
At the end of February 2007, Vyatta announced the second version of the distribution developed by it, which allows turning an ordinary PC into a router. This solution is positioned as a competitor to lower-level Cisco and Juniper products. What is so special about Vyatta?
At first there was no distribution. One of the first developments of Vyatta was the Open Flexible Router (OFR) software package, which turns an ordinary PC into a router. Moreover, it was noted that the performance and safety level corresponded to commercial products. From the very beginning, the course was taken for openness, since, according to the developers, this significantly speeds up the elimination of possible shortcomings and contributes to the rapid development of the product and adaptation for all possible conditions. By the way, Vyatta is a Sanskrit word meaning open. The company sees its product as a network equivalent of solutions like Linux or Firefox, although it’s not opposed to Microsoft products, but Cisco Systems.
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Vyatta features
The Vyatta project did not originate from scratch. OFR is based on the eXtensible Open Router Platform (XORP), an open source routing platform operating in a fortified Unix version. It is being developed by a group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Berkeley, led by Atanu Ghosh, funded by such giants as Intel and Microsoft, as well as the National Science Foundation and Vyatta. Currently, the XORP code contains 670,000 term in C ++, can be compiled on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows Server 2003 and distributed under BSD with a similar license.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, with some extensions for IPv6), Routing Information Protocol (RIP v2 for IPv4 and RIPng for IPv6), Protocol-Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Internet Group Management Protocol (OSPFv2 (RFC2328)) are supported and OSPFv3 (RFC2740), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD), OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), IGMP and SNMP.
The company uses the business model used by Red Hat, that is, the manufacturer plans to offer paid services and support for users of Vyatta routers, while the software itself is available for free. distribution that can be used for testing. Although probably not in a hurry, as Vyatta has great potential. So Vyatta supports the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), which allows you to use the router as a backup, immediately taking over the processing in case of a failure of the main one. In addition, Vyatta includes the development of more than 60 different Open Source projects and its own code.
References:
- vyatta.com - official website
- vyatta.com/download - here you can download the distribution of 138 MB
- system-administrators.info/?p=2418#more-2418 - link to the full article
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/40648/
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