VyOS Reviews

Best software router out there if you like a professional CLI, rock solid stability and loads of enterprise features.

Date of experience: 22 December 2023

You guys have been great to work with but you are making the wrong decision with T2100 to not set check igp as default. Every other BGP implementation does this. The feedback I am getting from the networking community says that no one wants this and I have demonstrated how it breaks BGP networks. This breaks BGP in a subtle way that only becomes apparent during a reroute. I am giving this feedback to help you improve.

Date of experience: 13 April 2020

We are working with VyOS (previously Vyatta) since 2014 and in general we are very satified.

VyOS is a great product. It's very community driven. The only small downside at the moment is that some legacy staff needs to be reworked until the focus really could be set to the future.
But a lot of things are already changed.

Date of experience: 20 April 2020

What an awesome Swiss-Army-Knife of a solution!
I've been using Vyos since the early days. It is an incredibly flexible, useful and stable router.

Very impressed with the recent re-shuffle, re-branding and formalizing of the commercial support model.

It will no-doubt bring Vyos on-par with other high-quality commercially-supported open source tools. In my view, better than your average Cisco/Juniper/Edgemax router.

Date of experience: 15 April 2020

Over the last two years of so, VyOS has become my go-to for a wide range of use cases, ranging from a simple home router all the way up to using it for private to public cloud connectivity on AWS, Azure and GCP. It's also a great VPN appliance for road-warriors.

It doesn't matter what I throw it on, KVM, Xen or VMware hypervisors, or bare metal Xeon, Xeon-D and below... it just works.

VyOS kicks ... you know what. I hope you'll decide to support the project too.

Date of experience: 14 April 2020

I ran into an issue in VyOS with bridging of special frame types. I opened a case and Dmitriy immediately jumped in to help me solve it. He whipped up a kernel mod, installed it for me, and even opened a ticket to add some additional functionality into the next VyOS main release.

The customer service and quality of work from the VyOS team is unmatched in the industry. I highly recommend them.

Date of experience: 11 January 2021

VyOS is my go-to router distribution. I use it at client sites, at home, and would not hesitate to recommend it for most router/firewall needs. It runs superbly well on small low powered hardware as well as larger servers. I have never used or needed the paid support, but for a mission critical installation I would think it would be beneficial.

Date of experience: 14 April 2020

We have been using Vyatta/VYOS for years now and recently started participating in paid support program. We are happy to do this as we think it is important to financially support good open source software. I have had a couple of support issues thus far where I was not able to easily find the answer I was looking for on the web. I could have taken more time to look, but instead I was able to open up a quick line of communication to the VYOS support team. Their response has been prompt and thorough and truly interested in answering the question versus just moving through tickets. Great Job!

Date of experience: 13 April 2020

The best router you can get.
I am a network administrator and we have been using the vyos router for over 7 years.
It is our main router to do NAT on the eduroam wifi network and it has proven to be stable and solid as a rock.
We have now gone from a single vyos to a couple of vyos routers in HA.
Vyos has a really good CLI, easy to copy and clone configurations, runs in virtual so it allows you to have a test environment,...
Best choice you can make.

Date of experience: 14 February 2022

Vyos is my go-to distro when setting up routers. Everything works out of the box, the installation process is simple and in a few minutes you're good to go.

The development is really active, and you can easily reach the devs and the community through the forums if you need.

Date of experience: 20 April 2020

VyOS has been my go to virtual router distribution ever since vyatta got acquired. I love their new business model which makes sure the project stays afloat while still giving the community all the features being developed without restrictions.

Date of experience: 27 April 2020

Vyos is a fantastic, performance router. Quick and easy to setup with the basics, but enough features to make it the sort of router you could run an ISP off easily (and I know people who have done just that)

I use at home in a Virtual Router and I find it performs amazingly. No longer do we have to reboot the router at home to fix odd issues, because we don't have any.

Vyos is an excellent tool not just for being a great router, but also to use for learning and teaching people the basics of routing. It's got built-in support for all the major useful VPN protocols, and the 1.4 builds have introduced support for Containers based on Podman. This allows you the flexibility to add interesting services/features to your router as required in a simple, secure and reproducible manner.

Finally the Vyos Slack is full of helpful, friendly knowledgeable people. The forums are great as well.

Vyos is my go to tool when I need a router or a VPN terminator etc. Professional, friendly and reliable. That's Vyos.

Date of experience: 07 October 2022

I've been using vyos since 2013. I was looking at purchasing a couple of other hardware devices from a vendor that sounds like Jupiter. There were several licensing restrictions and extra costs that would have gone into the project, but thanks to Lanner electronics and vyos, the cost dropped by about 75% and we didn't have to worry about extra licensing to do what we needed. I'm pretty much s novice when it comes to the network and network security side of the house, but our very experienced network team was more than impressed with vyos. And they were able to, not only complete, but add features, to our installation for several hundred workstations using 5Gb of bandwidth across 4 sites. Myself and a team with over 60 years of combined experience can't recommend it strongly enough.

Date of experience: 19 September 2020

Startet with Vyatta and now moved to vyos.
Have bin using Vyatta/Vyos on hardware/VMware for many years. Also using Ubiquti routers.
We are using Vyos in our education.
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Date of experience: 11 May 2020

I've used VyOS (Vyatta) since 2014. It was the primary routing platform in an organization that supported 100+ sites and over 40,000 users. There is a learning curve for some who have come from a traditional environment, but it is an extremely flexible networking platform.

Date of experience: 22 April 2020

last year I tried to use VyOS as a router in a pilot project. it was really perfect, easy to use, stable and I liked it.
I used VyOs to establish IPSec tunnel to Cisco and GCP and it works perfectly.
They had a great community and you will get a fast answer in case of a problem.

Date of experience: 04 August 2021

Our experience with VyOS is excellent.

The customer support is great and we communicate directly with developers and systems engineers when need be. VyOS is by far the best vendor we use.

We have 50 VyOS instances that make up the backbone of the virtualization of our datacenter networks. VyOS providing core networking in production for more than 1000VMs. On top of our platform, VyOS is the primary networking to deliver SAP Cloud serves for more than 40 businesses and 200 000 end users.

We use VyOS as virtual appliances, for route propagation/ BGP, zone firewall, Internet access, and as a VPN concentrator. Each internal and external customer gets their own VyOS instance.

We are very exited for the future releases and new functionality the team is planning to bring on!

Date of experience: 27 May 2021

A very good community and excellent Router. VyOS ist very stable. We use VyOS to communicate with our servers in different locations. It works very well!

Date of experience: 13 April 2020

Found it a bit difficult to figure out the right product configuration for us, but we are happy with the product quality.

Date of experience: 13 April 2020

VyOS has proven to be very reliable since we started using it in 2011 (starting with Vyatta).

Date of experience: 20 April 2020