Vyatta project is a Linux-based router and firewall offering a free community edition and two commercial editions with support.

Vyatta has changed the networking world by developing the first commercially supported, open-source router & firewall solution.

Vyatta combines the features, performance and reliability of an enterprise router & firewall with the cost savings, flexibility and security of open source.

Introduce new levels of economics, choice, and control into your network:

Economics: Save 50% or more over proprietary products! Leverage industry standard x86 servers and off-the-shelf components.
Choice: Vyatta is available as ready-to-use software and integrated software/hardware appliances. You choose which fits your need.
Control: Source code availability & community influence allow for faster feature integration and the freedom to build your own custom solutions.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Integrated Broadcom Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet Controller Drivers
· Pre-defined IPS policies -- "Connectivity", "Security", "Balanced"
· New configuration subdirectory structure to preserve state during Image Upgrade
· New CLI commands for simplifying file management tasks
· Optimizations to configuration backend performance, efficiency, and robustness
· Enhancements to IPsecVPN management, reliability, and
· interoperability, including X.509 digital certificate authentication for site-to-site VPN; Configurable IKE lifetime for remote access connections; Configurable protocol and port for IPsec VPN tunnels; Assign fixed IP to remote access clients
· Enhancements to OpenVPN usability and flexibility, including Reset individual clients; Reject access for individual clients; Reset a running OpenVPN process; Push domain names / DNS suffixes to connecting clients; Bridging across OpenVPN in client-server mode
· EXPERIMENTAL -- 64-bit Vyatta Core LiveCD and Virtualization ISO images (for release 6.3, only available in VC)
· Additionally, over 200 bugs were addressed and resolved in Release 6.3, delivering a new level of product stability and system integrity for enterprise-class deployments.