Vyatta is an open routing software developed by the Vyatta company created in 2005. Vyatta uses a routing engine called XORP (eXtensible Open Router Platform) created in 2002 and funded initially by Intel and the National Science Foundation, then with Microsoft and Vyatta.
An interesting idea for the Vyatta OS is that it comes from software packages including XORP and a derived Debian Linux distribution. You can use Vyatta as a LiveCD and save the configuration on a floppy disk or install it on your hard drive for better performance. Learning Vyatta is easy as the "routing engine" and OS are now combined in a unique package.
In January 2008, Vyatta introduced a testing release called "Glendale Alpha. This release no longer uses the XORP shell for the Vyatta CLI but a redesigned shell is called FusionCLI based on the command shell Bash. FusionCLI looks like a XORP shell but looks like this shell as explained by Vyatta. is a more robust shell and can make it easier for future feature developments.
Vyatta can be used on any computer with an x86 architecture, in other words, a computer with an Intel or AMD processor and of course at least one network interface (NIC). Not only that, it is better to have a floppy disk drive or hard drive to store the system configuration.
CLI (Command Line Interface) Vyatta routing platform is called also XORPSH for XORP shell. This interface looks like the Juniper OS interface but is very different from the famous Cisco IOS CLI.
A web interface is available for those of you who don't like command-line interfaces. Telnet and ssh (secure shell) protocols can be used to access Vyatta as well.
Vyatta Router supports network protocols such as:
- Routing: RIPv2, OSPF, BGP.
- Encapsulation: Frame relay or PPP.
- Address translation (NAT).
- Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
- DHCP server or relay.
- Troubleshooting: TCPdump.
- Stateful Firewall.
The standard protocol used by Vyatta in order to interact with products from other manufacturers such as American communications giant CISCO, Nortel and Juniper or other devices to respect the network standards defined in the RFC (Request for Comment) made by the international group IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
The advantages of Vyatta are very interesting:
- This software is free.
- This device only requires x86 architecture as hardware.
Due to the open-source concept, security is getting improved because this OS is always audited by an external company, and if there is a security problem anyone can work to solve it. Vyatta routers are still not as good as other commercial products, this is due to the fact that Vyatta is almost always used as a software-based appliance solution and not a hardware-based appliance solution like its competitors. A "partial" hardware-based appliance solution available for Vyatta is with a Dell PC where Vyatta is pre-installed on the hard drive.
A Vyatta router doesn't have the rich functionality of a Cisco router, but the magic of Vyatta is that it doesn't cost you the hundreds of millions of dollars that California Corporation spends every year. Fortunately, this is fine as only some of the functions Vyatta supports are actually used to run the router. It's good to emphasize that you can install packages to add new functionality such as CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol).
The Vyatta router is new and has some less important functions like a VPN but the development team working on Vyatta will definitely come up with a solution as soon as possible.
History of the Vyatta Router development project.
Since Vyatta VC 2.2, many bugs have been solved. Vyatta can now compete with Cisco 1xxx and 2xxx series routers such as 1800, 2600, or 2800 series routers.
Vyatta can be used on a small scale for mid-sized business environments, but before deploying Vyatta in your production network, we highly recommend that you test it in a lab or small network temporarily to see if it is suitable for what you need. Thus the explanation about Vyatta, hopefully, can be useful for all friends.
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