Vyatta

Vyatta, A Brocade Company

Type	Corporation (wholly owned subsidiary of Brocade Communications Systems)
Industry	LAN, wide area network, security appliance, Internet security, network security
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Belmont, CA
Key people	CEO: Kelly Herrell
Products	Router, firewall, VPN, virtual router, virtual firewall, DHCP, network address translation, web caching, network virtualization
Number of employees	50-100
Website	vyatta.org

Vyatta provides software-based virtual router, virtual firewall and VPN products for Internet Protocol networks (IPv4 and IPv6). A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others. A standardized management console, similar to Juniper JUNOS or Cisco IOS, in addition to a web-based GUI and traditional Linux system commands, provides configuration of the system and applications. In recent versions of Vyatta, web-based management interface is supplied only in the subscription edition. However, all functionality is available through KVM, serial console or SSH/telnet protocols. The software runs on standard x86-64 servers.

Vyatta is also delivered as a virtual machine file and can provide (vrouter, vfirewall, VPN) functionality for Xen, VMware, KVM, Rackspace^[1], SoftLayer^[2], and Amazon EC2 virtual and cloud computing environments. As of October, 2012, Vyatta has also been available through Amazon Marketplace and can be purchased as a service to provide VPN, cloud bridging and other network functions to users of Amazon's AWS services.

Vyatta sells a subscription edition that includes all the functionality of the open source version as well as a graphical user interface, access to Vyatta's RESTful API's, Serial Support, TACACS+, Config Sync, System Image Cloning, software updates, 24x7 phone and email technical support, and training. Certification as a Vyatta Professional is now available. Vyatta also offers professional services and consulting engagements.

The Vyatta system is intended as a replacement for Cisco IOS 1800 through ASR 1000^[3] series Integrated Services Routers (ISR) and ASA 5500 security appliances, with a strong emphasis on the cost and flexibility inherent in an open source, Linux-based system^[4] running on commodity x86 hardware or in VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open Source Xen and KVM virtual environments.

In 2012, Brocade Communications Systems acquired Vyatta and renamed it "Vyatta, a Brocade Company". In April, 2013, Brocade renamed the product from the Vyatta Subscription Edition (VSE) to the Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter.^[5] The latest commercial release of the Brocade vRouter is no longer open-source based.

Vyatta Core

The free community Vyatta Core software (VC) is an open source network operating system providing advanced IPv4 and IPv6 routing, stateful firewalling, secure communication through both an IPSec based VPN as well as through the SSL based OpenVPN.^[6]

In October 2013 an independent group started a fork of Vyatta Core under the name VyOS.^[7]

Release History

Version number	Release date	Status	Branch	Based on	Kernel used	Major changes	Notes
6.6 [8]	May 2013	Current	Daisy	Pacifica	3.3.8	DMVPN, Multicast Routing, SNMPv3
6.5	Oct. 2012	Current	Pacifica	Oxnard	3.3	Support for Hyper V, policy based routing, Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI), BGP Multipath support, and IPsec for IPv6, 64-bit support	IPS is removed from Vyatta Core.
6.4	April 2012	Historical	Oxnard	Napa	3.0.23	reorganizing operational mode commands, better support of VRRP, Global stateful behavior for firewall,Connection Tracking Enhancements, Enhanced Connection Sync Functionality - Support for seamless failover of FTP, SIP and H.323 connections, NAT Enhancements, CLI Enhancements, Upgrade improvements for bare-metal installations (VSE only), Virtualization upgrade improvements (VSE only), VMware vSphere 5 support (VSE only), XenServer 6.0 support (VSE only), expanded GUI with additional tabs – Dashboard and Statistics. (VSE only)
6.3[9]	August 2011	Historical	Napa	Mendocino	2.6.37	x.509 for IPsec, improved user management for remote access VPN, OpenVPN sessions restart, OpenVPN server bridging, migration use volatile data apart from config between images, file management commands.	Web GUI is removed from Vyatta Core. First release with experimental 64-bit builds.
6.2[10]	March 2011	Historical	Mendocino	Larkspur	2.6.35	Build on Debian Squeeze (vs 6.1 based on Lenny), configurable serial console lines, confirmed commits, configuration archive and possibility to view changes, scripting API, IPv6 DNS resolver, OpenVPN Enhancements, improved Config Mgmt
6.1[11]	August 2010	Historical	Larkspur	Kenwood	2.6.32	DHCPv6, stateful firewall failover, LLDP, configuration items (de)activating and commenting, OpenVPN bridging, IPv6 BGP.
6.0[12]	April 2010	Historical	Kenwood	Isla Vista, Jenner	2.6.31	IPv6 firewall, IPv6 BGP, OSPFv3, firewall groups, binary installation, p2p traffic control, NetFlow, drivers for serial interfaces removed.	Vyatta Community renamed to Vyatta Core, subscription and community branches merged[13]
5.0.2[14]	March 2009	Historical	Isla Vista	Hollywood, Hollister[15]	2.6.26	OpenVPN, ethernet bonding, web proxy, url filtering (Squish), IPS (Snort), dns forwarding, wireless modems, RAID1, basic IPv6 support, serial interfaces full support.
4.1[16]	September 2008	Historical	Hollywood	Glendale	2.6.24	BGP MD5 authorization, experimental IPS, ADSL interfaces	Incremental update for 4.0, never released as a separate distro.
4.0[17]	April 2008	Historical	Glendale	Eureka[18]	2.6.23	New CLI, PPTP and L2TP VPN servers, PPPoE client, DHCP client, WAN load balancing, ECMP (Equal Cost Multipath Routing), user roles. XORP replaced with quagga.
3.0[19]	October 2007	Historical	Dublin	Camarillo	2.6.20	IPsec VPN, multilink PPP, BGP enhancements.
2.2	September 2007	Historical	Camarillo	Bakersfield	2.6.20	?	Probably an update set for 2.0.
2.0[20]	Feb 2007	Historical	Alameda	1.1.1	2.6.16	Multiport T1/E1 cards, BGP performance improved, experimental IPv6 and multicast routing.
1.1	?	Historical	?	?	2.6.16	?	The first Debian based release.[21]
1.0[22]	24 July 2006	Historical	?	?	??	?
0.5[22]	6 April 2006	Historical	?	?	2.6.12	?

References

1. "Rackspace Cloud Servers Brocade Vyatta vRouter". Rackspace. Retrieved 2014-11-02.
2. "SoftLayer Network Appliances". SoftLayer. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
3. Larry Chaffin (2010-01-17). "Putting Realism Into Your Network: 10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper". Network World. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
4. Kelly Herrell (2009-12-18). "Intel Takes Vyatta to 10Gig". Retrieved 2012-01-28.
5. "Brocade Newsroom".
6. See http://www.vyatta.org
7. "VyOS".
8. "SDN + NFV" (PDF). Brocade Community Forums.
9. http://vyatta.org/node/14232 http://vyatta.org/node/14232
10. "Vyatta Roadmap". Vyatta.org. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
11. "Press Releases". www.vyatta.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
12. tmccafferty (2010-03-30). "View topic - Vyatta Version 6.0 is here!". Vyatta.org. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
13. Subscription versions now are different from core only with additional components, other features are the same.
14. "View topic - VC5 Released". Vyatta.org. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
15. "View topic - About branch hollister". Vyatta.org. 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
16. "View topic - VC4.1 (Hollywood) released to stable". Vyatta.org. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
17. DaveRoberts (2008-04-21). "View topic - VC4 released". Vyatta.org. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
18. "Bug 2544 – Glendale's Nightly-built Version Should be Changed to glendale (instead of eureka beta)". Bugzilla.vyatta.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
19. "Vyatta Community Edition 3 - Routing,Firewall,VPN enhancements". ItsyourIP.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
20. "Press Releases". www.vyatta.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
21. "[Vyatta-users] ANN: Glendale timeline". Mail-archive.com. 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2012-06-12.

External links

• Official website
• Open Source Community