Re:VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)
by sofixa on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:00AM
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IMO, Open Source routers are a niche thing, and open source declarative CLI routers even more of a niche thing.
Most enterprises prefer buying something with a support contract from a known name vendor (Cisco, Juniper, etc.). Most home users just use what their ISP provides them with, and of those that want something more, they either pick a SOHO vendor like Ubiquiti/Mikrotik, or if DIYing the hardware, choose pfSense / OPNSense / DD-WRT for the clickOps options, because networking really isn't trivial. For those who networking is trivial, Debian is fine router OS if you know your way around iptables and friends.
That leaves all those who want to use DIY hardware, and a enterprise-like declarative CLI. That's really not a whole lot of people in the end.
Re:VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)
by whalesalad on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:18PM
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OPNsense and pfSense exist, plus OpenWrt.
Why isn't doing this much more popular? All the systems are already there, after all! Why aren't there (that I know of) dozens of projects to accomplish this relatively easy, but relatively useful task?
I think it's a pretty big deal to be able to configure that stuff from a single place. Commercial router manufacturers all do it. Why does (as far as I know) only VyOS do it on the open source side of things?