[aklug] Re: RouterBoard

Funny.... I left Vyatta for pfSense and I love it. Vyatta was great and
powerful, but there were a few things I was trying to do with source based
routing that I found pfSense more refined.

Christopher - I bought some hardware from these guys, which came loaded
with pfSense.
http://www.logicsupply.com/computers/solutions/firewall-networking/

Scott

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:49:04 -0800
> > William McKinney <wdmckinney@me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Mikrotik has been around for a long time, and is quite proprietary.
> >>
> >> a.
> >>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/376717/how-to-set-up-a-linux-server-as-a-router
> >> b. http://www.lartc.org/ c.http://www.zeroshell.org/
> >> d. https://openwrt.org
> >> e. http://www.freesco.org/
> >
> > Forgive me a touch of frustration... it is all nice and wonderful to
> > be able to throw out a list of several of the dozen or two Linux
> > router distros out there... but it would be more helpful if we could
> > point to one or two of them that actually sold ready to go hardware,
> > with software pre-installed, and transceiver modules ready to be
> > plugged in, to meet your middle-sized business or enterprise needs.
> >
> > Say, I find out I am going to need 12 VLANs, with fiber trunks, and
> > router-on-stick, and OSPF, and radius authentication, and ACLs, and
> > port security, and config sharing, and neighbor discovery, etc.,
> > etc... Personally, I'd like to be able to look at Web page that lists
> > all the specs of the hardware, the prices, along with reassurances
> > that the software is preinstalled, with all necessary drivers
> > functioning, and the system has a straightforward and reasonably easy
> > to master interface.
>
> As much as I hate to say it ... if you need this level of
> functionality, performance, ease-of-use, and hardware support ... then
> I think that you're either better off going commercial, or you're
> going to have to tinker at least a little bit.
>
> Commercial doesn't have to be super-expensive. You might want to
> check out the Ubiquiti stuff:
>
> http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax
>
> They run a fork of Vyatta, and there appears to be some
> cross-pollination among the projects:
>
> http://dotbalm.org/leaving-pfsense-for-vyos/
>
> On the tinkering side, some of the stuff I know of (like pfSense) does
> a lot of what you list above, but not all of it out of the box -
> especially when you start looking for port security and neighbor
> discovery. Concerns from the dotbalm.org guy about pfSense hardware
> performance (because PF wasn't multi-threaded) will be addressed in
> the next major release of pfSense.
>
> > For a guy who is in the process of getting into the Net Tech field, it
> > seems like we are really falling short in this area. If I'm wrong, I'd
> > be glad to learn more about what's out there...
> >
> > (Somebody else mentioned VyOS... Again, if you can point me to the
> > vendor site with hardware specs and prices, I'd be grateful.)
>
>
> http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#EdgeMAXhardware
>
> VyOS is intended for people who want to build their own routers. They
> could really use a 'supported hardware' wiki page or FAQ entry, but
> these appear to be lacking. But the Ubiquiti stuff above looks good.
>
> NB: I have no direct experience with any of the above other than
> pfSense. I just did a few minutes of GTFY. ;-)
>
> Royce
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