[167004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Wilkins)
Mon Nov 25 20:51:02 2013
From: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnPpBQLHRRDkMnt1nz8Wi0k3B6KEmt9tbgNS-wfRHqSnqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:50:34 -0500
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
Cc: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
> It looks like Brocade has swapped out Quagga with IP Infusion's =
non-free
> version, ZebOS. They also decided to abandon the FOSS Vyatta Core =
project.
>=20
> It's really unfortunate, as the FOSS project is the only reason I was
> interested in paying the licensing. It was attractive to have Vyatta =
Core
> as a no-cost option for small things, and the subscription edition for
> higher visibility devices. Now that they've moved away from having =
any
> FOSS project, I'm not really inclined to invest in the product, I'm =
sure
> there are others who feel the same way.
>=20
> There is a group of people who were active in the Vyatta community =
trying
> to get a fork of it going under the name VyOS, http://www.vyos.net/
>=20
> As far as Ubiquiti, it looks like about 2 years ago they actually =
hired a
> few people from Vyatta, Inc. to work on EdgeOS. So development of =
EdgeOS
> has continued [and likely will continue] independently, though it =
looks
> like at least a few people from UBNT are interested in seeing VyOS =
happen
> and participating on their own time. I know one of the early goals =
for
> VyOS is to get the documentation up on their Wiki and have a release =
of the
> current Vyatta Core with the name swapped out as a starting point.
>=20
> I really hope the VyOS project can get off the ground. If any =
developers
> familiar with maintaining Debian-based distributions are on-list, I =
know
> the project is looking for people to help.
>=20
Interesting to read. I have two Vyatta SE routers running on a small =
ISP network which have been performing flawless right up until I =
upgraded to 6.6 and then one of the routers started randomly dropping =
some BGP sessions once every few days or a week and then the entire BGP =
process hangs after a couple weeks. The other router, with identical =
hardware and software, has had nary an issue. It just keeps chugging =
along (It'll probably go down in a big show of smoke and flames tonight =
right about the time I fall asleep). Vyatta support hasn't been able to =
make heads or tails of this as of yet. The affected box had no issue =
prior to the upgrade. Only a reboot has been able to get the router to =
function properly again. I've also since upgraded the affected router =
to 6.6R3 at the advice of Vyatta TAC. So far it shows a similar result. =
Other services stay running, such as OSPF and OSPFv3, and it still =
routes packets. It seems to otherwise work fine. Has anyone else had =
strange issues with Vyatta 6.6?
Ryan Wilkins
