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<h2 id="vyatta-core">Vyatta Core</h2> <p>The free community Vyatta Core software (VC) was an open source network operating system providing advanced <a href="/facts/IPv4/bnQ5MEqm">IPv4</a> and <a href="/facts/IPv6/d4dg7kIL">IPv6</a> routing, stateful firewalling, secure communication through both an <a href="/facts/IPSec/01MwcET1">IPSec</a> based VPN as well as through the SSL based <a href="/facts/OpenVPN/p8qllSrP">OpenVPN</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>In October 2013, an independent group started a fork of Vyatta Core under the name <a href="/facts/VyOS/PvC7GYda">VyOS</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p><p>In March 2018, ATT released a new open source project based on the proprietary Brocade version of Vyatta under the name DANOS.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h3>Release history</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th>Version number</th><th>Release date</th><th>Status</th><th>Branch</th><th>Based on</th><th>Kernel used</th><th>Major changes</th><th>Notes</th></tr><tr><td>6.6 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td><td>May 2013</td><td rowspan="2">Current</td><td>Daisy</td><td>Pacifica</td><td>3.3.8</td><td>DMVPN, Multicast Routing, SNMPv3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.5</td><td>Oct. 2012</td><td>Pacifica</td><td>Oxnard</td><td>3.3</td><td>Support for <a href="/facts/Hyper-V/3Qm0yJsv">Hyper-V</a>, policy based routing, Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI), BGP Multipath support, and IPsec for IPv6, 64-bit support</td><td>IPS is removed from Vyatta Core.</td></tr><tr><td>6.4</td><td>April 2012</td><td rowspan="14">Historical</td><td>Oxnard</td><td>Napa</td><td>3.0.23</td><td>reorganizing operational mode commands, better support of VRRP, Global stateful behavior for firewall, Connection Tracking Enhancements, Enhanced Connection Sync Functionality - Support for seamless failover of FTP, SIP and H.323 connections, NAT Enhancements, CLI Enhancements, Upgrade improvements for bare-metal installations (VSE only), Virtualization upgrade improvements (VSE only), VMware vSphere 5 support (VSE only), XenServer 6.0 support (VSE only), expanded GUI with additional tabs – Dashboard and Statistics. (VSE only)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.3<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></td><td>August 2011</td><td>Napa</td><td>Mendocino</td><td>2.6.37</td><td>x.509 for IPsec, improved user management for remote access VPN, OpenVPN sessions restart, OpenVPN server bridging, migration use volatile data apart from config between images, file management commands.</td><td>Web GUI is removed from Vyatta Core. First release with experimental 64-bit builds.</td></tr><tr><td>6.2<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td><td>March 2011</td><td>Mendocino</td><td>Larkspur</td><td>2.6.35</td><td>Build on Debian Squeeze (vs 6.1 based on Lenny), configurable serial console lines, confirmed commits, configuration archive and possibility to view changes, scripting API, IPv6 DNS resolver, <a href="/facts/OpenVPN/p8qllSrP">OpenVPN</a> enhancements, improved <a href="/facts/Configuration_Management/BRDwuKRk">Configuration Management</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.1<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></td><td>August 2010</td><td>Larkspur</td><td>Kenwood</td><td>2.6.32</td><td>DHCPv6, stateful firewall failover, LLDP, configuration items (de)activating and commenting, OpenVPN bridging, IPv6 BGP.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td><td>April 2010</td><td>Kenwood</td><td>Isla Vista, Jenner</td><td>2.6.31</td><td>IPv6 firewall, IPv6 BGP, OSPFv3, firewall groups, binary installation, p2p traffic control, NetFlow, drivers for serial interfaces removed.</td><td>Vyatta Community renamed to Vyatta Core, subscription and community branches merged<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>5.0.2<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></td><td>March 2009</td><td>Isla Vista</td><td>Hollywood, Hollister<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></td><td>2.6.26</td><td>OpenVPN, Ethernet bonding, web proxy, url filtering (Squish), IPS (Snort), dns forwarding, wireless modems, RAID1, basic IPv6 support, serial interfaces full support.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4.1<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></td><td>September 2008</td><td>Hollywood</td><td>Glendale</td><td>2.6.24</td><td>BGP MD5 authorization, experimental IPS, ADSL interfaces</td><td>Incremental update for 4.0, never released as a separate distro.</td></tr><tr><td>4.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></td><td>April 2008</td><td>Glendale</td><td>Eureka<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a></td><td>2.6.23</td><td>New CLI, PPTP and L2TP VPN servers, PPPoE client, DHCP client, WAN load balancing, ECMP (Equal Cost Multipath Routing), user roles. XORP replaced with quagga.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a></td><td>October 2007</td><td>Dublin</td><td>Camarillo</td><td rowspan="2">2.6.20</td><td>IPsec VPN, multilink PPP, BGP enhancements.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2.2</td><td>September 2007</td><td>Camarillo</td><td>Bakersfield</td><td>?</td><td>Probably an update set for 2.0.</td></tr><tr><td>2.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a></td><td>Feb 2007</td><td>Alameda</td><td>1.1.1</td><td rowspan="2">2.6.16</td><td>Multiport T1/E1 cards, BGP performance improved, experimental IPv6 and multicast routing.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1.1</td><td>?</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="3">?</td><td rowspan="3">?</td><td>The first Debian based release.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>1.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a></td><td>24 July 2006</td><td>??</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>0.5<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a></td><td>6 April 2006</td><td>2.6.12</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.danosproject.org">Open Source Community</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Rackspace Cloud Servers Brocade Vyatta vRouter". Rackspace. Archived from the original on 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2014-11-02. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141102114944/http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/vrouter/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20141102114944/http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/vrouter/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"SoftLayer Network Appliances". SoftLayer. Retrieved 2016-05-02. <a href="http://www.softlayer.com/network-appliances" target="_blank">http://www.softlayer.com/network-appliances</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Larry Chaffin (2010-01-17). "Putting Realism Into Your Network: 10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper". Network World. Retrieved 2012-01-28. <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/55669" target="_blank">https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/55669</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Kelly Herrell (2009-12-18). "Intel Takes Vyatta to 10Gig". Retrieved 2012-01-28. <a href="http://kellyherrell.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/intel-takes-vyatta-to-10gig/" target="_blank">http://kellyherrell.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/intel-takes-vyatta-to-10gig/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Brocade Newsroom". <a href="http://newsroom.brocade.com/press-releases/brocade-unites-physical-and-virtual-networking-to--nasdaq-brcd-1011704" target="_blank">http://newsroom.brocade.com/press-releases/brocade-unites-physical-and-virtual-networking-to--nasdaq-brcd-1011704</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) Closes Vyatta Acquisition". Financial Trends. 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Retrieved 2024-11-08. <a href="https://www.fierce-network.com/platforms/ciena-buys-at-t-s-vyatta-to-strengthen-metro-edge-portfolio" target="_blank">https://www.fierce-network.com/platforms/ciena-buys-at-t-s-vyatta-to-strengthen-metro-edge-portfolio</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>See http://www.vyatta.org Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.vyatta.org" target="_blank">http://www.vyatta.org</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"VyOS". <a href="http://vyos.net" target="_blank">http://vyos.net</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"The Linux Foundation Hosts 'DANOS' Project, a Unified Network Operating System". 27 March 2018. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. 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Retrieved 2013-07-31. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130626022431/http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/documentation/VC6.6/VyattaRN_6.6R1_v01.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130626022431/http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/documentation/VC6.6/VyattaRN_6.6R1_v01.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"Vyatta Release 6.3 – Extending Networking in the Cloud". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-04-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120423080650/http://vyatta.org/node/14232" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120423080650/http://vyatta.org/node/14232</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Vyatta Roadmap". Vyatta.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514183245/http://vyatta.org/documentation/product-roadmap" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120514183245/http://vyatta.org/documentation/product-roadmap</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"Press Releases". www.vyatta.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101104052550/http://www.vyatta.com/about/press_releases.php?id=89" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101104052550/http://www.vyatta.com/about/press_releases.php?id=89</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>tmccafferty (2010-03-30). "View topic - Vyatta Version 6.0 is here!". Vyatta.org. Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101201151640/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3798" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101201151640/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3798</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Subscription versions now are different from core only with additional components, other features are the same. <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>"View topic - VC5 Released". Vyatta.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515161901/http://www.vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1608" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120515161901/http://www.vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1608</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>"View topic - About branch hollister". Vyatta.org. 2008-04-30. Archived from the original on 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://archive.today/20130416022147/http://www.vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=326" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130416022147/http://www.vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=326</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>"View topic - VC4.1 (Hollywood) released to stable". Vyatta.org. Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101201150546/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=944" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101201150546/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=944</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>DaveRoberts (2008-04-21). "View topic - VC4 released". Vyatta.org. Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101201135617/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=277" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101201135617/http://vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=277</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>"Bug 2544 – Glendale's Nightly-built Version Should be Changed to glendale (instead of eureka beta)". Bugzilla.vyatta.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2012-06-12. <a href="https://archive.today/20120712042054/http://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2544" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20120712042054/http://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2544</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>"Vyatta Community Edition 3 - Routing, Firewall, VPN enhancements". ItsyourIP.com. 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