The BGP Multipath Load Sharing for eBGP and iBGP feature allows you to configure multipath load balancing with both external BGP (eBGP) and internal BGP (iBGP) paths. Vyatta OS supports both iBGP and eBGP Multipath. Regarding the load sharing, traffic load is shared across them on a per session basis. That is, each new session is routed …

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OpenVPN is an advanced open source VPN solution backed by 'OpenVPN technologies' and which is now the de-facto standard in the open source networking space. Uses the proven SSL/TLS encryption protocol. Today, i will show you how to configure remote OpenVPN on Softlayer Vyatta gateway. This will give you secure access to your computing resource …

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By default, the logging information generated by Vyatta will be written to the main log file on Vyatta. Vyatta uses standard UNIX log rotation to prevent the file system from filling up with log files. When log messages are written to a file, the system will write up to 500 KB of log messages into the …

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In Brocade Vyatta version VSE6.7R6, Brocade introduce a new feature called SSL VPN Client Bundler. This SSL VPN feature is based on OpenVPN. Brocade SSL-VPN Client Bundler enables the Vyatta system to generate image bundles that facilitate the setup of SSL-VPN client connections. Bundles include the up-to-date SSL-VPN client configuration that is required to connect to the …

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I just experienced an Intermittent IPSEC tunnel connectivity issues on Vyatta. Customer suggested they intermittently lose the connectivity to their Softlayer VMs via IPSec between their corporate VPN gateway and Softlayer Vyatta gateway. Finally, I found out the issue is due to a Vyatta underlying Linux OS Debian system kernel network setting:xfrm4_gc_thresh. The xfrm_gc_thresh controls the …

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Vyatta gateway has provided a lot of cool network features but sometimes the default behaviour of Vyatta gateway do bring troubles in specific scenario. One real world example is about IPSec. On Vyatta gateway, IPSec function is offered by strongSwan. StrongSwan IPSec implementation will place a priority route which destination is the IPSec remote-prefix into …

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Recently we had an intermittent issue with remote OpenVPN. OpenVPN end user complains that they can’t connect to OpenVPN after works well for over a month. In the system log, we see the below: Sep 25 13:20:36 vy01 openvpn[25550]: pam_sss(vyatta-openvpn-vtun10.conf:auth): Request to sssd failed. Bad address Sep 25 13:20:36 vy01 openvpn-vtun10[25557]: 20x.8x.x8.30:56383 PLUGIN_CALL: POST /usr/lib/openvpn/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so/PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY status=1 Sep …

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When you order a Vyatta gateway appliance from Softlayer, you will see two accounts are created as Vyatta admin in Softlayer customer portal and on the device as well. The first account is vyatta and the other account is "root" account. Both accounts are admin-level account. By default, you can't use root account to remotely SSH in Vyatta gateway. …

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Vyatta provides the capability to maintain connectivity through one IPsec tunnel by using a pair of Vyatta routers with VRRP. When one Vyatta router fails or is brought down for maintenance, the new VRRP master Vyatta router restores IPsec connectivity between the local and remote networks. Here I will show you how to configure the …

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Most of Cloud Service Providers including Softlayer are providing Vyatta 5400 in their VPC offering. Brocade has new generation of Vyatta called Vyatta 5600. Brocade claims that this new generation Vyatta will be able to go past 100 Million Packets Per Second on standard COTS hardware. This big performance improvement is achieved by architecture change of Vyatta …

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