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Thoughts on vyatta router and hardware

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by dumphrey

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I have been testing the vyatta software from time to time and so far I'm impressed. I have not done enough with it (beyond basic 2 interface with NAT). It has replaced IPCop as my backup router at the house (running on an old celeron 1.2 Ghz with 512 ram). Currently I am playing with ACLs to build some firewall functionality (drop all 1918s incoming, allow established incoming, drop all. Limit outgoing to set list of static ips via nat). Also, I am looking at adding another nic to create a separate wireless network.
Have any of the rest of you played with it much? And if so, what sort of hardware would you recommend to run it on as an edge/gateway for a small business (25-50 users). Keep in mind performance and longevity are both priorities.

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by e.tamanisau

I have Vyatta 6.0 Community Edition configured as our gateway using a standard workstation (clone machine) running on an Intel Pentium 2.8 GHz CPU, 768 MB RAM with a ADSL link to the Internet.

I have configured with NAT (enabling our users to surf the Net) and DNAT (to enable our user to acess our Email Server and our Library Catalogue from the Internet).

I also had it serving as a web proxy and firewall.

So far, it has been working better than the Linksys router (WRT54G version 7) that we have running as our gateway with faster access due to 75% of our traffic routed via the web proxy in the Vyatta distro.

I find that it could be a likely replacement to CISCO products for organisations that are on a tight budget.

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