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Stable, Flexible, and Effortless to Manage
What do you like best about the product?
It’s stable, flexible, and provides the features I need without unnecessary complexity. I also like that it’s easy to manage and configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features can feel a bit limited or require extra setup, and there’s a learning curve for certain configurations. Occasional documentation gaps can also make troubleshooting slower.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VyOS helps streamline network management by providing a unified OS for routing, firewalling, and VPN services. It simplifies overall network operations, reduces dependency on multiple systems, and gives me better control and consistency across my environment.
Open Source Flexibility with Commodity Hardware
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate that VyOS is open source, which is a crucial factor for us because it prevents vendor lock-in and allows us flexibility. Its open-source nature also ensures that we are not tied to expensive recurring software subscriptions that come with hardware solutions from major network hardware providers. This gives us the advantage of using commodity hardware that is cost-effective, allowing us to create high-performance routers without the high costs. Additionally, VyOS has a comprehensive set of features that suit our needs, making it a practical choice for our operations. I find VyOS easy to use, which facilitates a smooth transition and operations without the steep learning curve that might be expected with complex network solutions. This ease of use was evident when my colleague, previously accustomed to Cisco and Huawei routers, could get up to speed with VyOS in just two days. VyOS's design alleviates our concerns with hardware maintenance and scaling issues, allowing us to upgrade and extend our network capabilities efficiently without facing downtime or hefty costs of replacing physical routers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the lack of a dedicated interface in VyOS a bit challenging. The documentation could be improved to be more comprehensive, even though support helps to resolve issues. Additionally, there's limited marketing and publicity around VyOS, which affects awareness. This lack of visibility means colleagues are often unfamiliar with it, making it difficult to hire people who already have the necessary knowledge. Recruitment becomes challenging because the talent pool familiar with VyOS is not plentiful. Also, VYOS being a niche product, makes it hard to explain to bank customers why we are using such a uncommon product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VyOS, being open source, offers cost flexibility and prevents vendor lock-in. It allows the use of inexpensive commodity hardware, enabling us to achieve high-performance routers without costly upgrades, thus facilitating scalability while minimizing downtime.
Great Value and Versatile, Just Needs a Little Getting Used To
What do you like best about the product?
great value for money and able to perform everything we need it to. support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
it's a little new for us so it's taking some time to figure it out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CGNAT
Greate opensource router and great support
What do you like best about the product?
Its opensource and its stable
it has a lot of protocols like whireshark openvpn gre etc etc
it has a lot of protocols like whireshark openvpn gre etc etc
What do you dislike about the product?
Miss auto backup option
Integration grafana and prometheus
It had a small learning curv comming form microtik and cisco, it would be nice if there where some online trainings
Integration grafana and prometheus
It had a small learning curv comming form microtik and cisco, it would be nice if there where some online trainings
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Stabilty and speed
Vyos has enabled us to white label devices we use for customer deployment in a cost effective manner
What do you like best about the product?
It is fairly easy to use and makes implementation a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is vastly different than many other OS's we use, so there was a learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed us to white label custom designed devices to meet the needs of our customer deployments. It has been very reliable and predictable.
We are using as Firewall and VPN with great result. Support is incredibly quick and valuable.
What do you like best about the product?
Support response.
Good life cycle.
Usability.
Good life cycle.
Usability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still not deeply tested on big configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We faced life cycle problem with previous appliance. With VyOS is much more easier to manage followign periodical release and patch deployment.
Vyos as firewall, proxy,VPN for
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to install and use, free for education.
You can install on PC, server, as VM, on cloud.
You can install on PC, server, as VM, on cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesent have GUI. Wiki coud be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me Vyos solve problem with firewall, NAT, routing, VPN(wireguard). We are using Vyos as our main router with configured firewall, VPN, NAT, VRRP.
One of the best router distributions
What do you like best about the product?
Vyos is my go-to for router/firewall distributions. It's pretty much a swiss army knife of router/firewalls thanks to the extensive feature list.
Vyos is a highly versatile networking solution that can be deployed on a range of hardware, from low-powered mini PCs for basic home routing to high-performance enterprise servers and virtual machines. This flexibility allows it to cater to a wide variety of users, regardless of their environment or specific needs.
Vyos supports advanced routing topologies and a comprehensive range of routing protocols. It also offers robust VPN support, including protocols like WireGuard, IPSec, and OpenVPN.
Recent versions have integrated HAProxy, which has proven to be extremely useful. The firewall configuration is intuitive, easy to manage, and effective.
By far, the command-line interface is my favourite feature of Vyos. It makes setting up firewall rules, NAT rules, QoS rules, site-to-site, or roadwarrior VPNs extremely easy to implement. I haven't seen any other router/firewall distribution with such a versatile and easy-to-use command-line interface.
Vyos also has an API which can be used to configure Vyos using tools like Terraform or Ansible.
The documentation is generally excellent, featuring many examples. While some sections may occasionally be slightly out of date, it’s usually easy to adapt them to newer versions with minor command adjustments.
I haven't had to talk to customer support directly, but I have reported bugs via their bug tracker, all of which have been promptly resolved.
Vyos is a highly versatile networking solution that can be deployed on a range of hardware, from low-powered mini PCs for basic home routing to high-performance enterprise servers and virtual machines. This flexibility allows it to cater to a wide variety of users, regardless of their environment or specific needs.
Vyos supports advanced routing topologies and a comprehensive range of routing protocols. It also offers robust VPN support, including protocols like WireGuard, IPSec, and OpenVPN.
Recent versions have integrated HAProxy, which has proven to be extremely useful. The firewall configuration is intuitive, easy to manage, and effective.
By far, the command-line interface is my favourite feature of Vyos. It makes setting up firewall rules, NAT rules, QoS rules, site-to-site, or roadwarrior VPNs extremely easy to implement. I haven't seen any other router/firewall distribution with such a versatile and easy-to-use command-line interface.
Vyos also has an API which can be used to configure Vyos using tools like Terraform or Ansible.
The documentation is generally excellent, featuring many examples. While some sections may occasionally be slightly out of date, it’s usually easy to adapt them to newer versions with minor command adjustments.
I haven't had to talk to customer support directly, but I have reported bugs via their bug tracker, all of which have been promptly resolved.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't really think of anything I dislike about VyOS. I've been able to do everything I've wanted to do in VyOS pretty easily.
If I had to be extremely picky the only thing I would say is, even though there is VyOS Stream coming soon, it would be nice if there were something like a lower cost home user/self-service/hobbyist license option to get access to the normal LTS release. Though with Stream coming soon, and with the nightly builds being pretty stable it's not a massive concern, just something that might be a good option as some users (including me!) would prefer to run LTS at home to match what we have in our "production" environments.
If I had to be extremely picky the only thing I would say is, even though there is VyOS Stream coming soon, it would be nice if there were something like a lower cost home user/self-service/hobbyist license option to get access to the normal LTS release. Though with Stream coming soon, and with the nightly builds being pretty stable it's not a massive concern, just something that might be a good option as some users (including me!) would prefer to run LTS at home to match what we have in our "production" environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used VyOS in a varity of different scenarios.
I've used Vyos as a router/firewall for a small business network, and I also used it at home for my personal router, and also my parents home router.
I have also used it to configure site-to-site VPNs between various cloud providers.
Currently my favourite use case has been to bypass CGNAT by using the built in HAProxy function to proxy traffic over a Wireguard tunnel just because how easy the configuration is.
I've used Vyos as a router/firewall for a small business network, and I also used it at home for my personal router, and also my parents home router.
I have also used it to configure site-to-site VPNs between various cloud providers.
Currently my favourite use case has been to bypass CGNAT by using the built in HAProxy function to proxy traffic over a Wireguard tunnel just because how easy the configuration is.
Simple and Powerful Virtual router for business
What do you like best about the product?
CLI and VPN support is incredible powerfull
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing of Vyos makes me upset at all. Totally positive experience with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High performance VPN-supporting edge router that help us to securely connect our VMS servers with remote IP cameras via FTTH network.
Highly stable and feature rich
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
Ability to automate tasks - ease of integration
Versitility of platform - able to use same system for multiple tasks
Ability to automate tasks - ease of integration
Versitility of platform - able to use same system for multiple tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
Could use a GUI for newer users and graphical monitoring
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to supply multiple VPN connection points - both remote users/road warriors and for site-to-site.
Using as main WAN edge device in multiple locations - NAT, Firewall
Internal systems routing - between subnets
Dynamic routing protocols - OSPF
One platform, one unit - multiple technology solutions - simplifed management
Using as main WAN edge device in multiple locations - NAT, Firewall
Internal systems routing - between subnets
Dynamic routing protocols - OSPF
One platform, one unit - multiple technology solutions - simplifed management
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