Welcome to Vyatta.org

The free community Vyatta Core software(VC) is an award-winning open source network operating system providing advanced IPv4 and IPv6 routing, stateful firewalling, IPSec and SSL OpenVPN, intrusion prevention, and more. When you add Vyatta to a standard x86 hardware system, you can create an enterprise grade network appliance that easily scales from DSL to 10Gbps. Vyatta is also optimized to run in VMware, Citrix XenServer, Xen, KVM, and other hypervisors, providing networking and security services to virtual machines and cloud computing environments. Vyatta has been downloaded over 600,000 times, has a community of hundreds of thousands of registered users and counts dozens of fortune 500 businesses among its commercial customers.

On this site, you'll find all the downloads, tools, documentation, and community resources to help you get up and running with your own Vyatta-based system. Ask questions in the Forums. Propose new features and vote on existing proposals. Participate and have fun. We have been working together with our community for over five years to continue to enhance the world's leading software-based network OS.


A commercial version of the Vyatta network OS (Vyatta Subscription Edition) is also available with enterprise-ready management and security product extensions and complete engineering support including proactive notifications of security alerts and software releases as well as priority access to patches & bug fixes. Vyatta SE is available as pre-integrated hardware appliances, software subscriptions and optimized virtual machines that include your choice of technical support level.

Vyatta Community Blogs

2012 Predictions

“To prophesy is hard, especially with respect to the future.”    – Mark Twain _________________________________ Network Virtualization, Phase I: VM Adoption The “virtualizati

Vyatta In High Gear

“You hang out with smart people, you get smart friends.”    – Rocky Balboa _____________________________ Anyone who reads this blog knows why they’re reading it.  They don&#

Response Bias or Who owns the virtual network

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” Warren Buffett, famous investor ____________________________________ I was recently asked by a respected Sili

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