[AusNOG] Gateway Router firewall

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Thomas Cuthbert wrote:

> > 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.

I think they forked from Vyatta CE back in the day (after Ubiquiti hired 
some Vyatta devs), and they have since switched out Quagga for IP Infusion 
ZebOS (just like Vyatta did), which itself was commercialised by the 
original author of Zebra (which was then forked to be Quagga because 
Zebra development stopped). Everything old is new again. I don't know how 
much collaboration between EdgeOS and VyOS still happens now.

VyOS is still stuck using a fork of Quagga 0.99.20.1, which is nearly five 
years old now, due to the difficulty in forward-porting the Vyatta patches.

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