October 22, 2009
I just came across this post by Kelly Herrell, and it highlights some of the key facts on why implementing Vyatta over Cisco makes absolute sense. The amount of R&D that goes into Cisco’s routing and security (approximately $0.5B) is at least 20 times less than the amount that goes into the x86 platform ($300B+).
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
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.
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).
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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