Comment on Let's talk about free/FOSS routing platforms for the homelab
TheHolm@aussie.zone 7 months ago
VyOS: Debian based router + firewall. Linux makes it easier for people to pick up the CLI but I’ve heard complaints about it being difficult to follow. Currently CLI only, at least without third-party solutions, but is powerful and competes directly with OPNsense for features for the most part. Seems to be just as stable. my mistake, FOSS version is not LTS but a rolling release and needs to be compiled.
Very misleading statement. Both rolling and LTS are FOSS, they just do not provide LTS binaries for free. Want LTS? build it yourself , all tools and guides(bit outdated) is out there. It will took 30 min you your time to setup.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My apologies, I didn’t realise the LTS version’s source was free. I’ll edit the post, thanks for pointing it out. Could you tell me more about your VyOS setup?
TheHolm@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Sorry, what do yo want to know? IT just a linux based router pretended to be a juniper FW. NAT/IPv6/PPPoE/VRFs are working as expected.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is it your main firewall?
Do you do in-place upgrades, and you do have HA for your firewall?
TheHolm@aussie.zone 7 months ago
No HA. Classic HA is evil, shared control plane is good way to loose both FWs. Need redundancy use 2 independent FW + routing protocols. Losing session states during fail-over is not a big problem these days. I did in-place upgrades, but I’m running LTS and not yet done any major version upgrades. So far no problems.