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Is there something that puts VyOS in a separate class than openwrt/*sense? I really liked VyOS when I tried it out, but OpenWRT seems like _mostly_ the same thi
by ahepp 4y ago
Is there something that puts VyOS in a separate class than openwrt/*sense? I really liked VyOS when I tried it out, but OpenWRT seems like _mostly_ the same thing. A bit less polished, but more likely to run on different vendor's hardware and let me unify the software without shelling out for a bunch of brand name gear.
I tend to agree on the VLAN stuff. I don't feel like I've found a good reason to do that on my home network (yet, at least). Fanless gear is also great.
- zrail 4y agoIMO the biggest reason why you'd run OpenWRT rather than anything else is the hardware support. OpenWRT has very broad hardware support for a huge number of commercial devices. VyOS and (pf|opn)sense basically only run on x86_64.
- dgroshev 4y agoFor me it was the stability. I haven’t tried OpenWRT, but OPNsense was quite troublesome. I don’t do anything exotic, just standard dualstack and some firewalling, but OPNsense at some point stopped being able to get the ipv6 interface up, with no config changes. I also noticed pings regularly spiking for no discernible reason. I tried to debug both for a few days and just gave up. VyOS is Debian with effectively a single file config, so it’s both simple and rock solid. As a bonus, pings got a couple ms lower on the same hardware.
- ahepp 4y agoHuh, I considered BSD to have a good reputation for stability and I believe network stack performance as well. Too bad. I did very much like the debian base of VyOS. I've had pretty good experiences with OpenWRT. But it's command line configuration isn't quite as polished as VyOS imo. Interesting note about the pings.