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http://Pfsense.org http://Pfsense.org has the open source use as you want model and hardware you can buy as well. Unlike Vyatta it lacks a strong command line

http://Pfsense.org http://Pfsense.org has the open source use as you want model and hardware you can buy as well. Unlike Vyatta it lacks a strong command line management console but more than makes up for it with a best in class web GUI. Unfortunately though Pfsense took a huge step backwards with its founder CMB moving over to Ubiquity to work on proprietary software/hardware. Hopefully Netgate the corporation behind the hardware and software for Pfsense will keep development moving forward without the founder.

ddeck 10y ago
If the Vyatta CLI is important you might consider VyOS [1], which is the open source version of Vyatta. It was forked from the community edition after the Brocade stopped development of it and close sourced the main edition. [1] https://vyos.io/ https://vyos.io/
feld 10y ago
pfsense has a strong team behind it as well as some FreeBSD committers/networking experts. Everything is fine.
nwrk 10y ago
There is also Mikrotik's RouterOS (commercial) with great command line and scriptability. [1] http://www.mikrotik.com/ http://www.mikrotik.com/
zxv 10y ago
I hear your concerns, and just want to add some recent experience that I believe is positive. I submitted a pull request this week, and they reviewed it within hours with informative feedback. The most recent major release overhauled their UI to use bootstrap, which has enhanced usability. They plan a REST API in the next major version. They've been presenting new work on L3 routing over netnap ("extremely fast and efficient packet I/O for both userspace and kernel clients") which can reach line rate on 10GB networks. https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd.pdf https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd... I understand the concerns about loosing someone as talented as CMB, but the others at Netgate appear to be engaging, open and very talented.

ddeck 10y ago

If the Vyatta CLI is important you might consider VyOS [1], which is the open source version of Vyatta. It was forked from the community edition after the Brocade stopped development of it and close sourced the main edition. [1] https://vyos.io/ https://vyos.io/

feld 10y ago

pfsense has a strong team behind it as well as some FreeBSD committers/networking experts. Everything is fine.

nwrk 10y ago

There is also Mikrotik's RouterOS (commercial) with great command line and scriptability. [1] http://www.mikrotik.com/ http://www.mikrotik.com/

zxv 10y ago

I hear your concerns, and just want to add some recent experience that I believe is positive. I submitted a pull request this week, and they reviewed it within hours with informative feedback. The most recent major release overhauled their UI to use bootstrap, which has enhanced usability. They plan a REST API in the next major version. They've been presenting new work on L3 routing over netnap ("extremely fast and efficient packet I/O for both userspace and kernel clients") which can reach line rate on 10GB networks. https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd.pdf https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd... I understand the concerns about loosing someone as talented as CMB, but the others at Netgate appear to be engaging, open and very talented.