[AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

[Kosh Naranek]

VyOS is more or less just a router.

I'm fairly certain the remote APIs are still coming soon, but it's been a
while since I reconfigured one, the advantage is that it's basically an
embedded OS that you can backup the JSON config and in an emergency just
boot up a new one and upload the config file.

While I'd prefer a hardware router, VyOS does the job, it's
monkey-maintainable and you don't need to fill out the requisition forms
and do the justification dance for a hardware router with redundancy.

I'd personally put pfSense as more of a router distribution than an
embedded router OS, but I haven't used it in way too long.


On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 18:04, David Beveridge <dave at bevhost.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:55 PM Rob Thomas <xrobau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, VyOS can be managed by Ansible, which is surprisingly cool.
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/vyos_config_module.html
>>
>>
> Actually pfsense can also be configured using ansible
> https://github.com/bevhost/ansible-module-pfsense
>
> I've found pfsense very good for deploying HA Proxy load balancers with
> FRR underneath.
> The web interface can be configured for access to various functions by
> LDAP user groups to manage the services on it.
> can VyOS do this?  or it just a router?
>
> dave
>
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