VyOS Platform Blog

Building VyOS images with custom packages just got simpler

While the new build scripts first introduced when we migrated the development branch to jessie made things much simpler for developers and for people who just want to build the ...

VyOS 1.2.0 development news in June

06/20/18 18:33 By: Daniil Baturin

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. RADIUS ...

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

05/28/18 13:42 By: Daniil Baturin

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 into the system ...

Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support

05/21/18 13:44 By: Daniil Baturin

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 the changes and ...

New-style operational mode command definitions are here

05/16/18 18:50 By: Daniil Baturin

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 number of issues were ...

VyOS 1.2.0 status update

05/11/18 10:33 By: Daniil Baturin

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 candidate from it. These ...

On security of GRE/IPsec scenarios

04/27/18 15:33 By: Daniil Baturin

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 issue was brought to ...

When VyOS CLI isn't enough

04/20/18 16:58 By: Daniil Baturin

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 always fix that, but ...

DNS forwarding in VyOS

04/13/18 14:00 By: Daniil Baturin

A lot of small networks do not have their own DNS server, but it's not always desirable to just leave hosts to use an external third-party server either, that's why we've had DNS ...

Loopback and the dummies

04/06/18 13:43 By: Daniil Baturin

"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 by default and ...