VyOS User Guide

Introduction

• About
• History
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Download
  • Installation
• CLI
• Quick Start
  • Configuration Mode
  • Commit and Save
  • Interface Configuration
  • SSH Management
  • Configure DHCP/DNS Servers
  • NAT
  • Firewall
  • Hardening

Basics

• Configuration Overview
  • Terminology
  • Work the Config
  • Navigating
  • Managing
  • Access opmode from config mode
  • Config Archive
  • Restore Default
• Basic Interfaces
  • Ethernet
  • Loopback
  • PPPoE
• System Configuration
  • User Management
  • Host Information
  • Default Gateway/Route
  • Time Zone
• Image Management
  • Update VyOS

Advanced

• Network Interfaces
  • Dummy
  • Bridge
  • Bond
  • L2TPv3
  • Pseudo Ethernet/MACVLAN
  • Wireless (Wi-Fi)
  • Tunnel
  • VLAN (802.1q)
  • QinQ (802.1ad)
  • VXLAN
  • GENEVE
• Services
  • Conntrack
  • DHCP / DHCPv6
  • DNS Forwarding
  • Dynamic DNS
  • LLDP
  • mDNS Repeater
  • IPoE Server
  • PPPoE Server
  • SSTP Server
  • UDP Broadcast Relay
  • SNMP
  • SSH
  • TFTP Server
  • Webproxy
• System Configuration
  • Configuration Management
  • Event Handler
  • Flow Accounting
  • NTP
  • System Proxy
  • Serial Console
  • Network Console
  • Syslog
  • Task Scheduler
• Firewall
  • Zone-based Firewall Policy
  • Groups
  • Rule-Sets
  • Applying a Rule-Set to an Interface
  • Applying a Rule-Set to a Zone
  • How VyOS replies when being pinged
  • Example Partial Config
• Routing
  • ARP
  • BGP
  • RPKI
  • OSPF
  • PBR
  • RIP
  • Static
  • BFD
  • TCP-MSS Clamping
  • Routing-policy
  • IGMP Proxy
• NAT
  • Overview
  • Configuration Examples
• NPTv6
  • VyOS Support
• QoS and Traffic Policy
  • Configuration nodes
  • Traffic policies in VyOS
  • Ingress shaping
  • Classful policies and traffic matching
• High availability
  • Basic setup
  • IPv6 support
  • Disabling a VRRP group
  • Setting VRRP group priority
  • Sync groups
  • Preemption
  • Unicast VRRP
  • Scripting
• VPN
  • OpenVPN
  • L2TP
  • Site-to-Site
  • GRE/IPsec
  • DMVPN
  • PPTP-Server
  • WireGuard VPN Interface
• WAN load balancing
  • Balancing Rules
  • Health checks
  • Source NAT rules
  • Sticky Connections
  • Failover
  • Script execution
  • Handling and monitoring
• Troubleshooting
  • Basic Connectivity Verification
  • Monitoring
  • Clear Command
  • Basic System Information

Appendix

• Release Notes
  • 1.2 (Crux)
  • Earlier releases
• Configuration Examples
  • DMVPN Hub
  • Zone-Policy example
  • BGP IPv6 unnumbered with extended nexthop
  • OSPF unnumbered with ECMP
  • Route-Based Site-to-Site VPN to Azure (BGP over IKEv2/IPsec)
  • Route-Based Redundant Site-to-Site VPN to Azure (BGP over IKEv2/IPsec)
  • Tunnelbroker.net (IPv6)
  • High Availability Walkthrough
• Command Reference
  • Operational Commands
  • Configuration Commands
• Running on VMware ESXi
  • ESXi 5.5 or later
• Running on Bare Metal
  • Intel Atom C3000
  • PC Engines APU4
  • Qotom Q355G4
  • Partaker i5
  • Acrosser AND-J190N1
• Migrate from Vyatta Core
  • Vyatta release compatibility
  • Upgrade procedure
• Command Scripting
  • Run configuration commands
  • Run operational commands
  • Other script language
  • Executing Configuration Scripts
  • Postconfig on boot

Contributing

• Building VyOS
  • Build Docker Container
  • Build ISO
  • Build packages
  • Upstream packages
• Issues/Feature requests
  • Bug Report/Issue
  • Feature Request
• Development
  • Submit a Patch
  • Coding Guidelines
  • Python
  • XML (used for CLI definitions)
  • Continuous Integration
• Documentation
  • Forking Workflow
  • Style Guide

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) 2018-2020 VyOS maintainers and contributors

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the VyOS maintainers.