[AusNOG] Gateway Router firewall

[Thomas Cuthbert]

I've been using openwrt on a linksys wrt 1900ac with great success. It
supports quagga nicely. There is a loadbalancer script that I use to
loadbalance over two WAN connections as well.

If I needed something beefier I'd maybe look at pfsense, vyos, cumulus or
the same setup you have currently.


Regards,

Thomas Cuthbert


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

> Is there features those tech dont allow for?
>
> For x86 boxes, not necessarily free but you do have VyOS and RouterOS,
> they close it down a bit more through their own management interfaces (CLI,
> GUI etc) but will have the standard protocols installed and ready to go,
> just got to pump in your environment specifics.
>
>  There's also the baked in Linux OS's like smoothwall and others I
> believe, but from memory they dont talk the more complex routing protocols,
> more built for just DHCP/PPP WAN with NAT and basic routing.
>
> If you dont want something like that then your best to stick with what you
> know, and just upgrade the hardware behind it if you are looking for more
> power.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> On 2017-01-10 11:55 AM, Glenn Hocking wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> For many years been using hand rolled router/firewall boxes for my
>> hosting network gateways. Time for an upgrade but still want the
>> flexibility of Linux based systems. Just wondering what others like in this
>> area and recommend as assume there should be some good hardened
>> preconfigured systems available now. Prefer open source Linux and free.
>>
>> What I currently use is,
>>
>> OS: Debian Linux
>> BGP: quagga
>> Firewall: iptables
>> Load balancing and HA: ipvsadm + perl
>> Monitoring: ipt_netflow + nfsen
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
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