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More than 500 businesses use VyOS globally.
Why VyOS?
We fundamentally believe that internet access is as vital to our human development as air, food, water, and healthcare. Built by engineers for engineers, VyOS is an open source software company that democratizes how we access networks so that the many, not the few, benefit from building solutions without limitations and prohibitive fees.
We do this as VyOS through our open source software and virtual platforms.
Features
For All Network Device Roles
Routing
BGP (IPv4 and IPv6), OSPF (v2 and v3), RIP and RIPng, policy-based routing.
VPN
IPsec, VTI, VXLAN, L2TPv3, L2TP/IPsec and PPTP servers, tunnel interfaces (GRE, IPIP, SIT), OpenVPN in client, server, or site-to-site mode, wireguard.
Firewall and NAT
Stateful firewalls, zone-based firewall, all types of source and destination NAT (one to one, one to many, many to many).
Network services
DHCP and DHCPv6 server and relay, IPv6 RA, DNS forwarding, TFTP server, web proxy, PPPoE access concentrator, NetFlow/sFlow sensor, QoS.
High availability
VRRP for IPv4 and IPv6, ability to execute custom health checks and transition scripts; ECMP, stateful load balancing.
Fully Open Source
Its entire codebase and build toolchain are available to everyone for auditing, building customized images, and contributing.
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Whether you have servers in your office, in your data center, or on the cloud – VyOS can be used to establish a secure access to and between any of them.What Our Customers Say
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Enterprise Router and Firewall
Standard network services such as DHCP server and relay, DNS forwarding and web proxy are supported as well.
VyOS supports stateful firewall for both IPv4 and IPv6 including zone-based firewall, as well as multiple types of NAT (one to one, one to many, many to many). Support for QoS and policy-based routing allows you to ensure optimal handling of traffic flows.
Edge Router
Support for standard routing protocols including OSPF and BGP makes edge router a popular use case for VyOS. Multiple BGP features including 32-bit ASNs; standard, large, and extended communities; AS override and more provide excellent interoperability.
For high availability setups, VRRP is supported for both IPv4 and IPv6 with the option to add custom health checks and transition scripts. Built-in configuration archiving and versioning, and a reversible, image based upgrade feature simplify system management and improve maintenance reliability.
Cloud Gateway
Due to its ability to run on physical and virtual hardware alike, VyOS can be used to connect your cloud infrastructure to your data center or office network. Ready to use images are available through the marketplace on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and many others, with more images to come in future releases.
Support for multiple protocols and no need for per-tunnel licensing allow for greater flexibility and reduced costs compared to VPN solutions provided by cloud vendors.
VPN Gateway
Support for multiple VPN protocols makes VyOS especially suited for the VPN gateway role. Among supported protocols are IPsec (IKEv1 and IKEv2), VTI, OpenVPN in client-server and site to site mode, and WireGuard.
Traditional and new tunneling protocols such as IPIP and GRE, as well as L2TPv3 and VXLAN can be used with or without IPsec protection.
VyOS is one of the few networking solutions that provide DMVPN support and perhaps the only open source platform to provide it.
Custom Services
VyOS is not just a product, but a unified platform, with all its internal APIs accessible to everyone. You can integrate your own applications into the VyOS CLI and produce custom images easily.
Scripting APIs can be used to create custom high availability scenarios. You can also produce images with custom configuration for deploying on your customer’s equipment.