Seeking recommendation and insights on VyOS for networking needs
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Hello everyone!
I'm currently considering VyOS as a potential solution for my networking needs, and I wanted to seek any advice and recommendations. Have any of you had experience with VyOS, and would you recommend it based on your experiences?
Thank you in advance for your insights!
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This forum here has nothing to do with VyOS, it's about pfSense and TNSR, Netgate doesn't take part in VyOS as far as I'm aware.
Just making sure you are informed, probably won't get much of a response here since most people here are using pfSense.
Are you considering VyOS over an existing pfSense setup for some reason? Better post/question might be to mention why you are leaving/not using pfSense to see if it maybe meets your needs.
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@planedrop cmon man. The OP posted his question in the correct category. There absolutely might be people here in a mixed environment running VyOS and pfsense. Also people post about UniFi and pfsense here all the time. So just take it easy. You could always just ignore the question but your response is so dismissive for no reason.
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@michmoor I agree, but also don't agree.
I don't think my comment was dismissive, the end of it is clearly asking if there are issues with VyOS vs pfSense/TNSR, such as some reason to avoid those products and go with VyOS instead, which if that was the case I'd be curious to know what since there might be a solution (esp if they're using pfSense already and are considering something else because of an issue, would love to help solve that issue).
Additionally the OP wasn't asking about VyOS along with pfSense or something like that, so my point was just that they may not get much help with this.
But yeah, I could have written that nicer, my apologies to @JackLee-0 I honestly didn't realize how hostile that came off until re-reading it lol, my bad.
Happy to help though in any way I can, not a ton of experience with VyOS personally but I know plenty that like it and have been happy with it. I don't think I'd take it over pfSense but it's definitely a solid option out there.
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Hi @planedrop @michmoor
Thanks for your replies! I'll do more research on my end. Maybe, I'll check out their community. Again, thank you! -
Totality of my experience with vyos is when I needed LAG + USB NIC's and I was experiencing instability with pfsense (on the USB NIC's I had). (LAG on openwrt or virtualisation of pfsense on top of Debian wasn't going to work within my thermal budget)
Worked great for my application as a stopgap multi WAN, multi network / w vlans router firewall all in one solution etc. Didn't test any of the HA stuff.
Only other thing of note is Vyos looks great if you want to build your own serial terminal server which gets modern security updates for cheap.
I missed the inability to put zabbix on it but I think the 1.4 release will let you put containers which you can then add functionality back. SNMP worked fine.
Only other hiccup I experienced was raid 1 os image plus bootloader on flash on a serial only appliance which took some work. First party updates aren't really there if you want to track their stable thing pretty sure, I grabbed a prebuilt Vyos iso image from a third party from github rather than building it myself.
I really enjoyed the CLI/ text config interface with version history and current config and saved config being separate in case i needed to power fence via by OOB network as the board in question didn't have a BMC.
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@definitelynotmyusername Thank you for your insights on VyOS! I joined the VyOS community forum and got some positive feedback.
