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Vyatta on the cloud (and running)

October 22, 2009

I’ve been dealing with technical issues over the past while getting my network address translations to work on the wonderful, virtual, kicking butt in the cloud, Vyatta router. Finally, it looks like this chapter is coming to a close.

Moving forward, as a choice for routing platform, Vyatta stands up to the test and lives up to its name. And with some tweaking, you’re able to build a high availability solution in the cloud at literally no cost (except for server fees). Architecture shot below;

Achieving High Availability with Vyatta on the cloud (continued)

October 14, 2009

In the earlier post of building a Vyatta router on the cloud with Amazon EC2, I mentioned that I had issues with setting up a SNAT (source NAT) and made the assumption that it was either a bug or the OS image of Vyatta on Amazon.

I’ve been working through this issue with Stig from Vyatta on their forums. You can view the messages at http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2908

Achieving High Availability with Vyatta on the cloud

October 12, 2009

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been working on setting up a virtual router on the cloud with the goal of building redundancy, and achieving high availability. After working on different platforms, I’ve come to the conclusion that Vyatta is the best way to go, whether on the cloud or not.

The router is being used for site to site vpn communication between a central and remote location. There will also be an application server on either end. Your typical network setup would look somewhat like the picture below.

Virtualizing Vyatta on the cloud

October 8, 2009

Vyatta is the underdog in the great world of routing. For long, corporations have been tied down on expensive and proprietary hardware. With Vyatta, it runs on standard x86 hardware and can accomplish what a Cisco router can, and attain better performance without the bloated cost.

OK, enough of the sales pitch (they aren’t paying me for this).

Cisco on the Amazon EC2 cloud

September 28, 2009

I’ve been working on virtualizing a cisco router on the cloud so that I can tunnel vpn traffic from one network to the other. The initial goal was to get a virtual Cisco router working on the cloud.

To get this going, I have the Cisco IOS 12.4 and was planning on running it off of GNS3, which is a front-end UI to Dynamips. I have most of my servers with Rackspace, but for this project, I was working with a server on the Amazon EC2. Below is a snapshot of what I was trying to accomplish.

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