I have now been using VyOS for about 9 months. I haven’t been very active in the forum largely because I have found the documentation great and pretty much everything I have wanted to do has just worked! That is a tribute to the developers.
How do I use VyOS, I have been using a single copy of v1.3 that I built from source in October last year up until a few days ago when I decided to give the rolling release a go. I run VyOS under KVM and use it to give myself more control on how other domains interact and work.
I have a background in large corporate networks as well as developing protocols. I enjoy delivering robust and reliable architectures and delivering novel solutions to problems.
I’ve been into computers and computer communication networks since the 1970s. Back then , long b4 almost all networks, I was working on a large banking 8,000 node SNA network. I also designed and prototyped a RS-232 SNA network switch. Later , I started the first ISP in North Idaho in the early 1990s and I’ve been doing ISP networks ever since.
Recently I discovered VyOS. I have to say that I find VyOS to be amazingly reliable and almost stupidly simple to learn
I am not a business owner, instead I’m an employee at an ISP. I am wanting to convince the management at the ISP where I work to purchase VyOS support so that I can have access to stable LTS VyOS downloads and also set up a lab where I can build some lab test VPP VyOS lab routers and demonstrate a potential fork-lift router replacement to a VyOS router system that can sustain 40-Gig to hopefully 100-Gig routing throughputs.
At this time , I give VyOS a thumbs up - it looks good.
I wish there was a rolling-release of a VPP-VyOS ( VPP already installed in VyOS and ready to go ).
I understand the stance of paying for VyOS support , however in my experience and in my own opinion , I wish VyOS allowed open access to all VyOS platform downloads ( including VPP in VyOS ) , then offer a paid VyOS support option. My reasoning is it’s easier to sell VyOS support to business already running LTS VyOS ( in my case a VPP enabled VyOS ) because the product can be evaluated and proven to be a strong long-term fast router solution.
I use VyOS in my homelab, well, I’m still learning VyOS and migrating from EdgeOS, and if your lab has stretched itself into a datacenter is it still a homelab? When it came time to replace my EdgeRouters, the choice to go with VyOS was simple. I’ve always loved the streamlined CLI and performance. And now I’m finding with mainline VyOS there’s tons of features that were missing on the Ubiquiti fork.
We use VyOS at work as our firewalls on a pair of gigabyte edge servers, they work great, I have been tasked to migrate from 1.3 LTS to 1.4 LTS which has given me a great understanding and respect for the work the VyOS team and community put into it.
Because of the use at work I have started to use it in my proxmox home lab in a vxlan network to separate home/prod and dev environments.
Hi everyone, I’m Martin Pedros, and while I’ve been using VyOS for a while, I still have a lot to learn. I design and implement networks with various brands, both in hardware and virtualized. I’m a technology enthusiast and am fairly self-taught. It is truly a pleasure to be able to share in this community.
Like a lot of people replying here, I found my way to VyOS from running an EdgeRouter. Mike Potts’ Ubiquiti Home Network guide got me started playing with home networking. I then got interested in running more stuff in my homelab, like Unbound and NSD.
I recently discovered cheap ex-corporate fiber NICs and Cisco switches, and installing solar+home battery removes the power consumption concerns of running a switch stack that uses ~5 kWh/day. I built my first VyOS image back in the 1.3.x days, but got busy with other things and never replaced the EdgeRouter. I have recently come back to VyOS and the EdgeRouter is set to be replaced with VyOS 1.5 stream running on bare metal.
EdgeOS to VyOS is an easy transition. We’re currently about 50% done moving our core from EdgeOS to VyOS, mostly on low cost Lanner Electronics hardware but also a few MS-01’s and VM’s at our higher capacity sites. We have an eBGP network with ~300 routes, about 50 routed sites, and many switched branch sites. In a shell it’s easy to forget which box you are on, Edge vs VyOS, they feel a lot the same. We have 100% success and stability with VyOS. Over a couple of years we have maintained this report, every site we upgrade to VyOS, we have never went back to, physically or remotely, for a router issue that was VyOS’s fault. Not once. We don’t demand a lot from our routers, just eBGP and some DHCP, but still I’m super impressed. It is very stable.
