Cooperative Education – Networking Spring 2010 Network Team Saigon Institute of Technology

Introduction to Vyatta A.Overview B.Feature

A. Overview  Open-source networking solutions: enterprise-class Router/Firewall/VPN  Vyatta solutions offer Better value Better performance Better scalability Better flexibility Better ecosystem  The word "vyatta" is ancient Sanskrit and means "open“  Pronounced vee-AH-tah

B. Features 1. Subscription Services 2. Interactive 3. Hardware Support 4. Virtualization 5. Interfaces 6. IP/Routing Protocols 7. Performance Optimization 8. IP Address Management 9. Encapsulation 10. Security 11. High Availability 12. Logging & Monitoring 13. Debugging

1. Subscription Services  Stable software  Regular updates  Regular bug fixes  All new features  All enhancements  Technical support  Web knowledge-base

2. Interactive  Command Line – Integrated CLI – Single configuration file – Telnet – SSHv2

 Web-Based GUI

3. Hardware Support  Standard 32-bt x86 processors and systems  cat.php  ral/Vyatta_Cisco_Replacement_Guide.pdf  ral/Vyatta_Hardware_Guidelines_v1.0.pdf

4. Virtualization

5. Interfaces  LAN interfaces: 10/100/1000 Ethernet NICs  WAN interfaces: T1/E1, T3/E3 cards 

6. Advance Routing Protocols  IP IPv4 IPv6  R outing protocols OSPFv2 (Open Shortest Path First)- Support for the most popular interior routing protocol for large networks BGP-4 (Border Gateway Protocol) - Support for the core routing protocol of the Internet RIPv2 (Routing Information Protocol) - Easily build and connect internal networks Static routes - Simplifies basic router configurations VRRP

7. Performance Optimization  WAN Load Balancing  Ethernet Link Bonding  QoS  ECMP  MLPPP  Web Caching

8. IP Address Management  Static/Dynamic IP Address  DHCP Server  DHCP Relay

9. Encapsulations  LAN encapsulations Ethernet 802.1Q VLANs  WAN encapsulations PPP (point to Point Protocol)‏ Multilink PPP Frame Relay HDLC  WAN encapsulations PPP (point to Point Protocol)‏ Multilink PPP Frame Relay HDLC

10. Security  Stateful inspection firewall  Network address translation (NAT)‏  IPsec VPN  SSL-Based OpenVPN  Intrusion Prevention  URL Filtering  Individual user accounts and passwords

11. High Availability  VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)‏  IPSec VPN Clustering  Support for multiple power supplies  Each protocol sandboxed from others, providing fault isolation

12. Logging & Monitoring  Syslog  SNMPv2c - Simple Network Monitoring Protocol Manage network performance Find and solve network problems Plan for network growth.

13. Debugging  Tcpdump  Wireshark

Reference  Vyatta home page:    351/ 351/ 

Slide History  Author: Nguyen Hai Son, Network Team, Saigon Institute of Technology  Created: Jan 30 th, 2008  Last modify:Feb. 26 th, 2010