<div dir="ltr">Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) is becoming a bigger and bigger deal with support for x86 in Cisco, Juniper and many other vendors improving by the week.<div><br></div><div>VyOS (formerly Vyatta) I know is in use by a lot of cloud providers as it provides a fairly stable platform for basic routing / firewall / VPN termination but I wouldn't want to run "core" network roles on it.</div><div>VMWare and their NSX Edge Services Gateway is also looking to be an option for the cloud services space with quite advanced features aimed at cloud tenants wanting greater control over routing, firewall, load balancing and SSL VPN features.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The offerings from Cisco (CSR1000V, NS-OSv) and Juniper (vSRX and vMX) are looking very promising also (licensing costs aside) for the possibility of running production network loads within x86 hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2c.</div><div><br></div><div>- Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au" target="_blank">kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div>Yes, we are running Vyatta's for all of our sites. The speed is quite good (IMHO & YMMV).</div>
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<b>To</b>: "Skeeve Stevens" <<a href="mailto:skeeve%2Bausnog@theispguy.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com</a>>, "Sam Sarkis-UIP" <<a href="mailto:ssarkis@unitedip.net.au" target="_blank">ssarkis@unitedip.net.au</a>><br>
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<b>Subject</b>: SPAM-MED: Re: [AusNOG] Firewall</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Interesting, I just went to VMUG yesterday, listen to a lot about NSX… Previously tried to stay away because of the enterprise licensing cost, but relooking at it again.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I noticed nobody mentioned it in the hypervisor env</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Is anyone running soft routers (VMs/non Hardware) as an ISP/provider.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I thinking you can’t beat silicon for pure switching … routing ?? and then coupled with something further up the stack, does switching/routing on the host of a hypervisor make more sense ?</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sam Sarkis-UIP<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sounds like an odd request... you mean it MUST be a Server based Firewall?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If that is an issue, get around it by going VMware and using vASA or vSRX?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know this is strange but we have a specific requirement for a customer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know or recommend a firewall / UTM software that can be installed on an existing Windows, Redhat, SuSE, or Centos Server.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would prefer a commercial package. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We cannot overwrite the existing os and have to work within any of the above mentions platforms only.</p>
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