Please move this over to the new forums (www.vyatta.org).
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Daren Tay
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:25 PM
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Subject: [Vyatta-users] Logging and Reporting
Hi guys,
Wanna
Yea, I was considering editing dhcpd.conf directly, but was
hoping the CLI would incorporate directly.
File a bug in Bugzilla (bugzilla.vyatta.com) describing what you want. If
there is a need, we'll certainly incorporate it.
Also, we should move this dicussion over to the forums. The email
I'm pleased to announce that VC4 (Glendale) Beta was released this morning
and is available for immediate download from either www.vyatta.org
http://www.vyatta.org/ or www.vyatta.com http://www.vyatta.com/ .
The feature set for this release is basically unchanged from the previous
Alpha 2
Not that I want to cut you guys off in any way, but I'd like to have you
guys move this discussion over to the new forums on vyatta.org. We're
going to be shutting down this mailing list shortly and I'd like to have
all active discussions happening over there.
Thanks,
-- Dave
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PPPoE support... do you intend to support a PPPoE server with
Glendale at some point?
Francois,
At present, it's not on the roadmap. The thought is that most of the time
that PPPoE is being used, you'd have a BRAS of some sort on the
provider-side, and currently, that's not a target market
File it for the bug bounty contest! ;-)
You are absolutely correct. Therefore the bug is: telnet is not properly
mapped. *GRIN*
Thanks for your help Stig.
Best,
-Chris
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However, make sure it's not already filed before you do -
this was bug 2478 :-)
https://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478
Justin
Oooo, you're good. ;-)
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Okay, with VC4 Alpha 2 just out the door earlier this week, it's time to
turn up the heat on testing. From the feedback we have been receiving, it's
clear that some people are actively working with VC4 Alpha 1, and hopefully
now Alpha 2.
To thank you for the help you're providing by exposing
7. The contest starts at 2:30 PM USA Pacific Standard Time on
Feb 27 and runs through 11:59 PM USA Pacific Standard Time on
March 22.
I clarified this when I posted it to vyatta.org, but sent this out too
quickly...
All dates/times are in 2008. I figured that was obvious, but I'm sure
1. What error are you seeing?
2. Have you looked at the PPPoE documentation on Vyatta.org?
http://www.vyatta.org/documentation/glendale-alpha2
-- Dave
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Alcantara
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:15 PM
To:
Thanks for the answer. I|d love to trz but in VC3 there is no
possibility. Seems we have to buy a subscription...
Could somebody from Vyatta please confirm this (vrrp) issue?
??? VC3 is a community release, available for download from the Vyatta web
site.
-- Dave
Done. After vascillating for a while, I finally caved on this. Replies now
go back to the list rather than the original poster. Please be careful if
you need to send something direct.
As an aside, I have no idea why vyatta-users was setup differently than
vyatta-hackers. They should have had the
Piyush,
The answer to this varies by the particular release. Assuming you're
running something VC3 or earlier, then you login as 'root' with password
'vyatta' and you'll be at the bash prompt, as others have said. As Stig
pointed out, in Glendale, the model is slightly different. In Glendale,
I had a couple general announcements for the Vyatta community...
First, if you live in the Southern California area, Vyatta is going to have
a booth at SCALE 6x at the LAX Airport Westin. SCALE 6x runs today and this
weekend, Feb 8 - 10. You can find more info about SCALE here:
We are planning to do some upgrade in our network. The
present network has one vyatta router and two internet
connections (one is 1Mb leased line and the other is 2Mb
Broadband), Since the broadband connection is limited, we are
manually changing the default gateway
Abhilash,
You should
I posted a thread a month ago about getting the equivalent jdocs
for vyatta, have anybody from the Vyatta team approached
Oreiley in just getting a book produced? A paper back
edition crafted by them, would do wonders in promoting
vyatta to the networking community.
next ,
The Vyatta business model is essentially very Red Hat-like: we sell
subscriptions, professional services, training, etc. Yes, we have real
(talented!) staff. Yes, we pay salaries. ;-) The fact is, the Vyatta team
comprises veterans from Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, and other leading
networking
Sounds like the right call.
Cheers,
-- Dave Roberts
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From: Jostein Martinsen-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dave Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Justin Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vyatta-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2/2/2008 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Vyatta-users] Unable
Glendale probably hasn't had enough widespread alpha testing to know for
sure, but having said that, I think the general consensus from people at
Vyatta as well as some other comments we have gotten from outside is that it
feels a lot more stable. By stable, I specifically mean a lot less
Aubrey, when you say it's mildly confusing, what are you referring to?
-- Dave
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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:48 AM
To: Ken Felix (C)
Cc: vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [Vyatta-users]
people to try it out and
report back your experiences, whether good or bad. If you find that things
are performing well, feel free to cautiously deploy it in real networks,
always keeping in mind the caveat that this is still pre-release, Alpha or
Beta software.
Cheers,
-- Dave Roberts
Vyatta
Discuss Glendale on this list unless the comments are specifically about how to
build or hack the system.
Cheers,
-- Dave Roberts
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Sent: 1/24/2008 5:39 PM
Subject: Re
Ken,
This is great to hear. Sometimes people ask us, What is different about
Vyatta than simply getting a Linux distro and turning on some networking
features? The answer is that a Linux box manages like a bag of individual
components, not like an integrated system. With Vyatta, much of the
Is that how the Vyatta company operates? Leave bugs unpatched
and hope someone will pay for support? It would seem to make
more sense to hold features back instead of bugs.
As one of the guys representing the business-side of our company, I'll
weigh in here. As Justin rightly points out, the
(SIDE NOTE: (No offense meant) Why should changing interface
notations and static routes cause anything to crash?)
It shouldn't. That's one of the big things we're fixing in Glendale. The
Routermanager process did not handle errors well at all. It has been
eliminated entirely in Glendale.
--
Exactly. Why should anybody care? This is DHCP we're talking about. As
long as a node receives a currently unused address from the pool, you're
up and done.
If you want to control the assignment of nodes to addresses, well, that's
what static addressing is for.
I do think it's a bit odd that the
We have Asus Terminator C3 computers that are currently
acting as standby file servers on Slackware. (In other words,
idle 99.999% of the
time)
We may need a VPN solution in the near future to connect our
sites, and I was wondering if it would even be possible to
run Vyatta under
the changes.
As I said, I'll have more detail in a few days. Until then...
Cheers,
-- Dave Roberts
Vyatta Cruise Director
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I am more familiar with VMWare at this point, so that is what
I was thinking... They are VIA embedded... given 1Ghz and
512mb do you think things would get sluggish assuming a
moderately properly configured setup?
Vyatta seems really slim and very efficient, and I have a
hundred more
Would someone have an idea when can we expect to see IGMPv3
support in Vyatta? I suppose PIM-SM SSM is already supported,
but is there a way to use this feature without IGMPv3?
PIM-SM is currently experimental. We do absolutely no testing of it
whatsoever at this time. We'd be pleased to
That's very odd. Sometimes, router manager can fail to start, typically
when there is a problem of some sort with the config file. In that case,
you can't log in as vyatta, but you should always be able to login as
root, assuming you know the right password. If you have made no changes
to the
see some more information
about Glendale from me in the next few weeks.
So, thank you for your support in 2007. We could not have done it without
you.
We wish you and your families a very happy new year!
-- Dave
Dave Roberts
Vice-President, Strategy and Marketing
Vyatta, Inc.
Welcome
This may be the wrong place to ask this, but where or how can
I recover my twiki password for the Vyatta community wiki?
I see no place in the web interface for this purpose.
Look here:
http://www.vyatta.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ChangePassword
-- Dave
Not a bad idea. File an enhancement request, please:
http://bugzilla.vyatta.com/
-- Dave
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:33 PM
To: Vyatta-Users
Subject: [Vyatta-users] All I Want for Christmas
Hi all,
I'd
Thank you - it finally works :)
If you ever come to Bosnia (small country in the heart of
europe), I'll buy you cevapi ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86evap%C4%8Di%C4%87i
Is that offer good for anybody on the list? I have to admit that I have
never had cevapi in Bosnia before, but it
If you want to post that stuff on the wiki (or at least a pointer on the
wiki), that would be great.
This page would be a good place to start:
http://www.vyatta.com/twiki/bin/view/Community/WebHome
-- Dave
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McKinley
ok ok !
my error !
sorry ! ;)
There is a law of the universe somewhere that you're most likely to notice
your own mistake right after posting to an Internet mailing list. ;-)
If this phenomenon hasn't yet been named yet, I hereby dub it Dave's
Law. ;-)
-- Dave
Ya... it doesn't make breakfast for me in the morning
either... oh well.
Maybe next version ;)
The nice thing about open source is its relentless improvement. ;-)
In this particular case, the bug is fixed in the next version. Because of
the structural work we have been doing over the past
Meaning Glendale?
Yes.
-- Dave
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Does Vyatta support LACP/ieee 802.3ad for etherchanneling?
I didn't see it in the vyatta software page.
http://www.vyatta.com/products/vyatta_software_datasheet.pdf
It's clear that lacp is generally a feature available on
switches but it could be interseting to have it on the
Vyatta
I'm evaluating the Vyatta product in my lab and I'm having
trouble getting it to pass multicast traffic.
I don't have a good answer for you on this particular issue, but I'll just
point out that multicast support in Vyatta is currently experimental and
you are likely to encounter problems. In
You have a couple of options.
First, you can simply install from the ISO, just as if you were installing
onto regular hardware. See the Quick Start guide for instructions (it's
towards the back).
Second, you could install from a virtual appliance, available on our web
site. Right now, the
I am curious as to what makes Vyatta different from XORP
other than the commercial support? Are there features in
Vyatta that XORP does not have?
Yes, lots. Other than the stuff Aubrey mentioned at the macro-feature
level (firewall, VPN, NAT, etc.), we have also made extensive changes to
the
From time to time I stumble across things written about Vyatta. I found a
nice how-to on bandwidth management and traffic shaping the other day. Those
that have been watching closely will already know that we're planning on
delivering QoS and bandwidth management in the next major release, but
can i compile vyatta source code in fedora core 6 ?
Short answer is no.
Long answer is that the current build environment is Debian. We're working
to enlarge that, but it'll always be somewhat biased toward Debian-ish
systems because Vyatta uses Debian as the foundation of much of the system
For the sake of those of us who subscribe to the Vyatta-users
mail in digest form (the once a day compilation), please try
only to quote the pertinent part of your reply to a poster.
Leaving the whole of the original post, when only a small
portion is needed to clarify your reply makes
I have a similar problem twice now. And I do have it
installed to a disk not running off the iso.
Hmmm... That's a problem.
Do you know what you typed to save it? Are you sure you didn't save it to
another file name? The system allows you to save different files under
different names, but
driveCan someone point me to where in the documentation
this action is mentioned? Thanks.
The Quick Start Guide will tell you how to do this. Look for the section
titled Installing to a Persistent Device. Page 50 in the VC3 Quick
Start.
-- Dave
Adrian,
I'm putting an article on my website about how to create a
site-to-site connection between Vyatta and ISA 2006.
Once you get this completed, please add a link to it on the community wiki
page that points to documentation such as this:
Vyatta is pleased to announce the release of Vyatta Community Edition 3
(code named Dublin). Updated packages have been released to the Vyatta
Community main repository. An ISO CD-ROM image and a new VMware virtual
appliance are available from the Vyatta web site. Both will be available at
Also, make sure you're installing to disk. The live CD obviously loses
things when you reboot because it only creates a RAM disk. Alternatively,
you can save to floppy disk for the live CD.
-- Dave
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Jr
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First install VC2.2 and then do a package upgrade to the VC3 beta
packages, per the instructions in the release notes. There is no ISO being
distributed for the beta. Release notes can be found here:
http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/index.php
Additional information can be found in the release
.
Now get writing!
-- Dave
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:51 PM
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Subject: [Vyatta-users] Dear John...
Some Monday fun for everybody. After coming back from the Ohio Linux Fest at
the end
With VC3 coming down the pike, I'm looking for folks that would like to be
advocates with the press and possibly analysts. What I need are Vyatta
community members, either customers or Community Edition users, who are
willing to speak with the press about how you are using Vyatta in creative
Vyatta is pleased to announce the beta release of Vyatta Community Edition 3
(code named Dublin). Updated packages have been released to the Vyatta
testing repository. This code is beta quality and is suitable for those
wanting a preview of this release. We urge that everybody interested in
Some Monday fun for everybody. After coming back from the Ohio Linux Fest at
the end of September, we were sitting around here at Vyatta discussing the
show. Somebody remarked that there were an aweful lot of people that came up
to our booth and told us that they loved open source networking
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:01 PM
To: 'Daren Tay'; vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [Vyatta-users] Prevent root ssh login, but allow shell
access?
If the box is publicly accessible, there is no way
If the box is publicly accessible, there is no way to prevent users from
trying to login to it. There are bots that try a whole bunch of default
passwords on every publicly accessible box they can find. The ssh daemon
will dutifully log all access attempts. My Fedora box at home generates
the same
You certainly can; I monitor Vyatta routers with MRTG and Nagios.
Another option here is Hyperic, a Vyatta Ready partner. They have a
plug-in for Hyperic HQ. There is a community version of Hyperic HQ
available.
-- Dave
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Vyatta does not support running paravirtualized under Xen. We do run under
Xen in non-para modes, however, using the hardware virtualization support
in newer x86 processors.
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Good Luck.
Ryan, and if you get it working, be sure to write up a report of your
experience and post it to the mailing list. It would be great if others
could learn from your experience.
-- Dave
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The Community and Subscription Editions are built from the same source
train, but they do differ. The primary differences are going to be timings
of features and bug fixes. New features may be released to the Community
Edition first in order to stabilize them before they are released to
.
-- Dave
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From: Leonardo Lima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM
To: Aubrey Wells
Cc: Dave Roberts; vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [Vyatta-users] OFR under Xen?
Xen para-virtualizes Debian (as I have lots of Debian Sarge in devel
space
I have a setup where I need to have an IP address assigned
through DHCP on eth0. I installed the DHCP client package,
with dpkg -i dhcp3-client_3.0.4-13_i386.deb. It works when
I start it manually. After a reboot it stops working. I have
made changes to
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto
I am using a rather simple Dell server for my Vyatta
solution; a P4-D 2.8Ghz with 1GB ram.
For an infrastructure of an uplink of 4Mbps, and projected to
grow, will this be enough?
What should I take note considering I am doing rather
intensive NAT-ing (heck, I don't even know if it
UPGRADING
=
To upgrade, make sure your repository configuration includes
the Main repository, as described on the wiki:
http://www.vyatta.com/twiki/bin/view/Community/HowToUpdate
Unless you have changed to repository configuration, the
default configuration file includes the
If you followed the procedure I sent out in the announcement email, then
I'm probably the source of the problem. I mistakenly copied the procedure
from the 2.2 beta announcement into the final release. The procedure was
changed slightly between beta and final release. I just sent out a
correction.
Hello Vyatta,
I found vyatta for a few days and i installed it successfully
on my box.
It runs all fine and i updated it to the latest state.
But i have a simple question, it ist possible to recive a
dynamic ip from an dhcp server on an vyatta ethernet
interface ? i didnt find a
No, on the router. Login in as root and fireup Wireshark.
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I just downloaded the ISO, so I suppose its the latest stable version?
Actually, this isn't the latest stable version. It's the latest stable
ISO, but you'll want to do a package update. The details for how to do
this can be found in the latest release notes here:
The VPN stuff is not described in the Quick-Start, but it is in the newest
documentation. Go here
http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/
then download the 2.2 Beta docs.
-- Dave
PS: Welcome to the Vyatta community.
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