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And it's FREE! Throw away those behemoths that suck power from every grid in the state and drain your budget. This baby is Free, Open Source and VIRTUAL, meaning you can run as many instances of this router as you want on your choice of hardware. What is even more gratifying is it's faster than the old router technology.
Vyatta has commoditized router, firewall and VPN deployment in the same way that Linux commoditized the operating system market. Vyatta open-source networking offers you an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors.
Vyatta software enables customers to build routing and security solutions using standard x86-based hardware of their choosing, ensuring networks will always meet performance requirements. Vyatta open-source software delivers the unique advantage of allowing customers to scale networks from the simplest LAN configurations to large BGP WAN edge configurations using a single software package.
Vyatta software includes support for most commonly used network interfaces, industry standard routing and management protocols, and all of these features are configurable via a single command-line interface (CLI) or web-based graphical user interface (GUI) - avail Q3'08. The integrated features and functionality make Vyatta software ideal for SMB, Branch Office, Enterprise and Service Provider deployments.
Summary of features:
BGP, OSPF, RIP, DHCP, QoS, IPSec VPN, VRRP, PPP, 802.1Q, Complete List.
This open source router is already running on XenServer in a large service provider in Europe. We are using it in our Citrix Ready program as a multi-link Intranet with connections to the Internet along with high availability link load balancing.
This para-virtualized Vyatta image runs as a virtual appliance in XenServer v3.2.1 and v4.1.
The XenServer Platform we are using:
- Dell Poweredge 2950 server.
- 2 x Intel 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon Processors, Model E5335 @ 2.00 GHz each, for a total of 8 CPUs.
- 2 Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet (on-board)
- 2 Broadcom NetXtremeII Gigabit Ethernet
- 16 GB of memory.
- 300 GB of Storage.
- XenServer v4.1
- *note: CPU's must support virtualization technology.
Virtual Router - Install:
Virtual Router - Config:
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If you don't know, GoToAssist is Citrix's web-hosted solution for Remote Support and as they are getting ready to release the express version of the product, they have invited everyone to join their beta program.
Beta testers will get unlimited free use of GoToAssist Express Beta in exchange for tracking bugs, making feature requests and sharing their opinions on the product.I have taken a few screenshots to let you drool all over them...
Now pick up your jaw off the floor and create an account to start using it today!
Sign-up here: https://express.gotoassist.com/
On a site note, I found out that the guys from GoToAssist have a slick blog separate from the official Citrix community site.
Check it out: http://blog.gotoassist.com/
regards,
Gus Pinto - Technology Evangelist
Microsoft MVP | Gus.Pinto@citrix.com