Vyatta


Vyatta is a subsidiary of American telecommunications company AT&T that provides software-based virtual router, virtual firewall and VPN products for Internet Protocol networks. A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others. A standardized management console, similar to Juniper JUNOS or Cisco IOS, in addition to a web-based GUI and traditional Linux system commands, provides configuration of the system and applications. In recent versions of Vyatta, web-based management interface is supplied only in the subscription edition. However, all functionality is available through KVM, serial console or SSH/telnet protocols. The software runs on standard x86-64 servers.
Vyatta is also delivered as a virtual machine file and can provide functionality for Xen, VMware, KVM, Rackspace, SoftLayer, and Amazon EC2 virtual and cloud computing environments. As of October, 2012, Vyatta has also been available through Amazon Marketplace and can be purchased as a service to provide VPN, cloud bridging and other network functions to users of Amazon's AWS services.
Vyatta sells a subscription edition that includes all the functionality of the open source version as well as a graphical user interface, access to Vyatta's RESTful API's, Serial Support, TACACS+, Config Sync, System Image Cloning, software updates, 24x7 phone and email technical support, and training. Certification as a Vyatta Professional is now available. Vyatta also offers professional services and consulting engagements.
The Vyatta system is intended as a replacement for Cisco IOS 1800 through ASR 1000 series Integrated Services Routers and ASA 5500 security appliances, with a strong emphasis on the cost and flexibility inherent in an open source, Linux-based system running on commodity x86 hardware or in VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open Source Xen and KVM virtual environments.
In 2012, Brocade Communications Systems acquired Vyatta. In April, 2013, Brocade renamed the product from the Vyatta Subscription Edition to the Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter. The latest commercial release of the Brocade vRouter is no longer open-source based.
In June 2017, Brocade sold Vyatta Software Technology to AT&T Communications.

Vyatta Core

The free community Vyatta Core software was an open source network operating system providing advanced IPv4 and IPv6 routing, stateful firewalling, secure communication through both an IPSec based VPN as well as through the SSL based OpenVPN.
In October 2013 an independent group started a fork of Vyatta Core under the name VyOS.
In March 2018, ATT released a new open source project based on the proprietary Brocade version Vyatta under the name DANOS.

Release History

Version numberRelease dateStatusBranchBased onKernel usedMajor changesNotes
6.6May 2013CurrentDaisyPacifica3.3.8DMVPN, Multicast Routing, SNMPv3
6.5Oct. 2012CurrentPacificaOxnard3.3Support for Hyper V, policy based routing, Virtual Tunnel Interface, BGP Multipath support, and IPsec for IPv6, 64-bit supportIPS is removed from Vyatta Core.
6.4April 2012HistoricalOxnardNapa3.0.23reorganizing operational mode commands, better support of VRRP, Global stateful behavior for firewall,Connection Tracking Enhancements, Enhanced Connection Sync Functionality - Support for seamless failover of FTP, SIP and H.323 connections, NAT Enhancements, CLI Enhancements, Upgrade improvements for bare-metal installations, Virtualization upgrade improvements, VMware vSphere 5 support, XenServer 6.0 support, expanded GUI with additional tabs – Dashboard and Statistics.
6.3August 2011HistoricalNapaMendocino2.6.37x.509 for IPsec, improved user management for remote access VPN, OpenVPN sessions restart, OpenVPN server bridging, migration use volatile data apart from config between images, file management commands.Web GUI is removed from Vyatta Core. First release with experimental 64-bit builds.
6.2March 2011HistoricalMendocinoLarkspur2.6.35Build on Debian Squeeze, configurable serial console lines, confirmed commits, configuration archive and possibility to view changes, scripting API, IPv6 DNS resolver, OpenVPN Enhancements, improved Config Mgmt
6.1August 2010HistoricalLarkspurKenwood2.6.32DHCPv6, stateful firewall failover, LLDP, configuration items activating and commenting, OpenVPN bridging, IPv6 BGP.
6.0April 2010HistoricalKenwoodIsla Vista, Jenner2.6.31IPv6 firewall, IPv6 BGP, OSPFv3, firewall groups, binary installation, p2p traffic control, NetFlow, drivers for serial interfaces removed.Vyatta Community renamed to Vyatta Core, subscription and community branches merged
5.0.2March 2009HistoricalIsla VistaHollywood, Hollister2.6.26OpenVPN, ethernet bonding, web proxy, url filtering, IPS, dns forwarding, wireless modems, RAID1, basic IPv6 support, serial interfaces full support.
4.1September 2008HistoricalHollywoodGlendale2.6.24BGP MD5 authorization, experimental IPS, ADSL interfacesIncremental update for 4.0, never released as a separate distro.
4.0April 2008HistoricalGlendaleEureka2.6.23New CLI, PPTP and L2TP VPN servers, PPPoE client, DHCP client, WAN load balancing, ECMP, user roles. XORP replaced with quagga.
3.0October 2007HistoricalDublinCamarillo2.6.20IPsec VPN, multilink PPP, BGP enhancements.
2.2September 2007HistoricalCamarilloBakersfield2.6.20?Probably an update set for 2.0.
2.0Feb 2007HistoricalAlameda1.1.12.6.16Multiport T1/E1 cards, BGP performance improved, experimental IPv6 and multicast routing.
1.1?Historical??2.6.16?The first Debian based release.
1.024 July 2006Historical?????
0.56 April 2006Historical??2.6.12?