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Vyatta

Routers is becoming as much part of our networks as switches and other networking equipments. Often we find network administrators seeking total solutions to provide inter connectivity, security and scalability. Often the choice is over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors. End result being that even the total cost of ownership of these hardware is not justified. Here we are referring to solutions ranging from internet security to basic routing and everything in between.

Its funny when you know you can cut down on the costing by 50% to 80% with alternative solutions. Namely linux based solutions. However the best part is only a few would choose such a path. I don't have an answer to why so, maybe again it's FUD... anyway solutions such as Vyatta is amazing products, which can save you so much on costs and gives you a strong flexibility.

Vyatta is a debian based Linux distribution which is designed/specialized with networking applications and management interfaces for those applications. Today often we see Linux based solutions implemented to manage our internet gateways, etc at our homes and offices. These setups are deployed using the conventinal linux routing/firewalling tools. Vyatta steps a bit ahead of the conventinal Linux distributions and specilized to be a router/firewall/VPN with a special command line interface like the cisco IOS specilized for the funcationality. Anyone who is familier with cisco IOS will easily be able to pick on this interface and deploy networks easily.

Vyatta comes with a live CD which you can boot and easily install on to a machine. Its got specilized CLI which can easily let you configure the machine as a router/firewall or a VPN server. To cut it short; if you are looking into implementing a cisco based solution, before you decide on a solution vyatta will be an ideal solution to look for as an alternative. This is very much applicable if you are on a tight budget.

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