[AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

[Alex Samad]

Hi

I thought there was some discussion on this list a while back about using
x85 VM for BGP cluster - inserting / editing BGP tables where faster in a
x86 VM.

A

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 15:35, Kosh Naranek <kosh at nervhq.com> wrote:

> 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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