[AusNOG] Is VyOS dead? What is everyone using for virtual routers/firewalls?

[Alex Samad]

Issues around vrf and kernel generated packets having wrong source address
Bfd having wrong source address were int has multi IP



On 2 May 2017 6:49 PM, "Joseph Goldman" <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

> Mostly a re-write of a lot of core processes to bring them much more
> multi-threaded, to utilise those massive core count CCR's.
>
> Biggest complaints atm from my understanding:
>
> 1) BGP processing, bringing in massive amounts of routes and parsing over
> them is single core to an extent
> 2) TCP streams seem to be limited based on a single CPU pushing 100% and
> allowing 1gbit through (single stream limitation)
>
> Not sure if these are fixed or just workarounds put in but these were big
> 'coming in V7' features.
>
> On 02/05/17 17:04, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Nice try but supposedly there is a new kernel release in V7 and some
> features can't be fixed in V6 ...  Well atleast thats what I have been
> told....
>
> A
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> On 2 May 2017 at 16:00, Nathanael Bettridge <nathanael at prodigy.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> I get the impression v7 is used as their dev platform at this point.
>>
>> MT will tout something as coming in v7 and you’ll after a while see it
>> incrementally rolled into the v6 releases.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Joseph
>> Goldman
>> *Sent:* Monday, 1 May 2017 5:14 PM
>> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Is VyOS dead? What is everyone using for virtual
>> routers/firewalls?
>>
>>
>>
>> Since people seem to be able to quantify progress on vyOS - I'd say vyOS.
>> ROS v7 is still in myth status at this point.
>>
>> On 01/05/17 16:54, Alex Samad wrote:
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>>
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>> On 1 May 2017 at 13:06, Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you're looking to pay for a product, the Brocade vRouter is well worth
>> a look.
>>
>>
>>
>> Otherwise - vyOS is far from dead and buried, but rewrites take time and
>> there's only so many hours in a day. As someone else has said, the IRC
>> channel is quite active and there's definitely progress being made.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Brad.
>>
>>
>> Wonder what will come first ROS V7 or vyOS rewrite ?
>>
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