[AusNOG] Gateway Router firewall

[Thomas Cuthbert]

> I’d also consider the Edgerouter from Ubiquiti.



> They basically forked VyOS and are now major contributers.


Oh nice - my impression was that they were maintaining their own fork. I
should check it out.


Regards,

Thomas Cuthbert


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Luke Fong <luke at lateralplains.com> wrote:

> I’d also consider the Edgerouter from Ubiquiti.
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> Does everything (BGP/OSPF etc) and can load balance or even bond WAN
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> Just a thought.
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> Cheers
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Thomas
> Cuthbert
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 January 2017 1:08 PM
> *To:* Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au>
> *Cc:* Ausnog <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Gateway Router firewall
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> 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.
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> If I needed something beefier I'd maybe look at pfsense, vyos, cumulus or
> the same setup you have currently.
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> Regards,
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> Thomas Cuthbert
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> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
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> Is there features those tech dont allow for?
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> 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.
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>  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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Joe
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> On 2017-01-10 11:55 AM, Glenn Hocking wrote:
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> Hi All
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> 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.
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> What I currently use is,
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> OS: Debian Linux
> BGP: quagga
> Firewall: iptables
> Load balancing and HA: ipvsadm + perl
> Monitoring: ipt_netflow + nfsen
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