Vyatta Virtualization Iso Vmware Workstation 10
Vyatta is a powerful enterprise class software router that has some really incredible features. It has a CLI (command line interface) as well as a web interface. I’ve gotten a few requests about configuring it as a front system but until now have only really worked with Vyatta as a pure routing appliance internal to my network. It has been my traffic cop between my lab subnet, user subnet, and server subnet but now I’ll try to configure it as a front end based on an exchange I had on another thread.This should be able to give you some examples with getting started using Vyatta as a front firewall.If you don’t have the software, you can download a free version, called Vyatta Core, from Vyatta’s website. You have to register, but don’t worry, they won’t spam you and they have extensive documentation on the product that you can pull down after registering. It’s an excellent resource to learn and practice your routing skills, especially since you can stand up the product on random hardware or in a virtual machine. Vyatta even has downloads specific to VMware implementations.
Check it out and come back if you’re interested in seeing this post through.And now for the good part.I’ll follow the format of entering commands (all CLI based) and explain the commands I entered and why I entered them. This information comes directly from the Vyatta documentation. This post just may save you a little time in sorting through docs for what you may need.There are ready-made virtual appliances for both VMware vSphere and Xen, or you can download the LiveCD iso.
Make sure to download the docs while you are there.ad#Google Adsense-1I’ll be building this out in a VMware Workstation virtual machine. The following screenshots represent configuring Vyatta to run in a virtual machine and the settings I used for the VM. I attempted to import the OVF into the latest version of workstation but it failed to import, so I installed using an ISO that can be downloaded from Vyatta’s website, and is specific to virtualization.These screenshots don’t have the accompanying text but show the settings that I used.
2GB Hard Drive, 512 MB RAM, Linux – Other Linux 2.6.x kernel, and I added an extra NIC bringing the total to 2. One will simulate the WAN and the other will simulate an internal LAN.This post will show you basic Vyatta configuration along with the paradigm of how Vyatta does things:. Installation of the software. Base configuration of the software. Configuration of the hardware. Enabling of management services (SSH and WebGUI). Configuring DHCP for a subnet.
Setting up simple NAT rules. Configuring the firewall for basic Internet access. Scenario based firewall examplesNow for the Vyatta configuration.
Start by logging in using vyatta as the username and vyatta as the password. I ran the install-image command to install vyatta onto the hard drive and follow the prompts. The text-based wizard will walk you through the installation. You can accept the defaults for the most part unless you have alternate needs. After the installation, run the shutdown command and disconnect the ISO and restart the system.At any point while in Vyatta’s configure mode, type ‘save’ at the prompt to save your configuration.
If you do not do this, your configuration will lost after reboots.Installation commands and summary:. Start vyatta. When at the vyatta login, use username vyatta and password vyatta.vyatta@vyatta:$ install-image– system will walk you through installationvyatta@vyatta:$ shutdowndisconnect the vyatta ISO after shutdown and then start the system againNow you should have a functioning Vyatta installation on a virtual machine.We’ll start by configuring the network adapters and some other basic Vyatta systems. @Sean: Updated the blog post to reflect the ‘save’ command. Thanks for the reminder on that.Vyatta can handle the site-to-site VPN but I don’t have experience with that functionality yet.
As for doing it on a single NIC per VPN end-point, it is theoretically possible since a single NIC can have multiple IP addresses. The configuration would likely get a little confusing, but it should be doable from, again, a theorectical standpoint. There may be something within Vyatta that doens’t allow it for security reasons.If you give it a try, please let me know and if you run into trouble I’ll try to help with what I can. I’ll also take a quick look at the docs and see if anything specifically says you cannot configure using that architecture.Can you explain the full topology of what you’re trying to do? Will Vyatta be handling external traffic as well or only a VPN solution for you? How many networks will Vyatta be working with?
That kind of thing.Good luck. Thanks for response. The topology of each site is flat (2-3 of the machines at each site to tunnel) Hosts-cisco router- private mpls cloud. They are soon to change so that multiple sites need to work together and access each others systems.
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I dont have control of the cisco router otherwise i would use that. My thoughts are to modify the routing table of the hosts that I want to tunnel to put next hop as the virtual router for particular destinations.
I think it may get too complicated. My fall back is openvpn and just getting the individuals to establish their own connections (I have this setup working already in lab). Hi Clement,Nice, simple & educational.