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Author: Daniil Baturin

Daniil Baturin
Posted 20 Jun, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0 development news in June

If we haven't written any new blog posts in a while, that's because we've all been busy with development. Here is what happened since the last status update. RA...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 28 May, 2018

Writing migration scripts (and manipulating VyOS config files outside VyOS) just got easier

Long story short VyOS 1.2.0-rolling (starting with the next nightly build) includes a library for parsing and manipulating config files without loading them int...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 21 May, 2018

Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support

I've made three important changes to the design of the configuration command definitions, and later I realized that I never wrote down a complete explanation of...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 16 May, 2018

New-style operational mode command definitions are here

We've had a convertor from the new style configuration command definitions in XML to the old style "templates" for a while in VyOS 1.2.0. As I predicted, a numb...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 11 May, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0 status update

While VyOS 1.2.0 nightly builds have been fairly usable for a while already, there are still some things to be done because we can make a named release candidat...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Apr, 2018

On security of GRE/IPsec scenarios

As we've already discussed, there are many ways to setup GRE (or something else) over IPsec and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Recently an is...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 20 Apr, 2018

When VyOS CLI isn't enough

Sometimes a particular configuration option is supported by the software that VyOS uses, but the CLI does not expose it. Since VyOS is open source, you can alwa...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 13 Apr, 2018

DNS forwarding in VyOS

Update (February 2021): As of VyOS 1.2.0 "service dns forwarding listen-on" has been deprecated. Please use "service dns forwarding listen-address" instead. In ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 6 Apr, 2018

Loopback and the dummies

"There is no place like 127.0.0.1" the old saying goes. While the loopback interface is most often seen as the interface where the 127.0.0.1 address is assigned...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 5 Apr, 2018

Naming of the nightly builds

Historically, we used to use "999.$timestamp" version numbers for development builds, including nightly builds. In our build scripts termninology, a development...
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