{"id":151,"date":"2010-05-06T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:12:00","slug":"routing-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/routing-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Routing Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vyatta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152 aligncenter pic\" alt=\"vyatta\" src=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vyatta-300x151.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vyatta-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vyatta.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vyatta.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vyatta<\/a>, simply fantastic open source routing software. Excellent, just what I need for\u00a0my virtual development lab!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Running on a very lightweight Linux core, after some initial issues with typos(!), Vyatta connected my dev lab to the WAN in minutes. Simple, straightforward NAT rules and a single static route and off you go!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, after the inital euphoria, I now realise some hard work is required. There are a number of\u00a0 isolated networks to connect using multi NAT rules and routes&#8230;and these need careful thought and consideration. Over the few weeks I have been using Vyatta, I must confess to becoming a complete convert and would recommend this to anyone with network routing issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s FREE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can download and create your own CD, watch the videos, read the documentation &#8211; all for free, than move onto their fully supported enterprise class solutions, if required.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I could not afford any Cisco solution for my developement environments and test lab &#8211; which surely is a problem for Cisco? Yes, I know they are almost a defacto standard and yes they have their strengths too, but in this world of the ever competitive marketplace, a solution which is extremely robust, fully functional, can be deployed in minutes and is <strong><em>free<\/em><\/strong>, has to be <em><strong>serious <\/strong><\/em>competition.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when it comes to budget sign-off for that new project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I discovered Vyatta, simply fantastic open source routing software. Excellent, just what I need for\u00a0my virtual development lab! Running on a very lightweight Linux core, after some initial issues with typos(!), Vyatta connected my dev lab to the WAN in minutes. Simple, straightforward NAT rules and a single static route and off you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,63,64],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","tag-routing","tag-virtualisation","tag-vyatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}