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High Performance, Enterprise-Grade Open Source Networking Platform for Bare Metal, Cloud, and Edge

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High Performance, Enterprise-Grade
Open Networking Platform
for Bare Metal, Cloud, and Edge

Powering Networks Worldwide

1500+ organizations rely on VyOS

  • fujitsu
  • google
  • ionos
  • carrefour
  • takeasp
  • 50hertz
  • ntt-data
  • equinix
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Your Network, Your Rules

In a world where network vendors dictate the terms, VyOS stands out by putting ownership and control back into your hands.

With VyOS, your network is truly yours: adaptable, transparent, and free from unnecessary restrictions or costly licensing models.

  • 50 %

    Faster Network Deployment

    Leverage VyOS’s automation-friendly APIs and cloud-init integrations to cut deployment times by half, accelerating your time-to-market.

  • Up to
    60 %

    Lower Operational Costs

    Cut costs with VyOS’s unlimited subscription model: no per-device fees. Save with a unified platform for routing, firewalling, and VPN, replacing multiple hardware and software solutions.

  • 70 %

    Greater Deployment Flexibility

    Deploy VyOS anywhere: virtual, cloud, or x86 servers, for consistent performance and scalability across data centers, edge, and hybrid clouds.

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Why Choose VyOS?

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    High Performance Networking

    VyOS delivers enterprise-grade routing, firewall and VPN on standard x86-64 hardware, on any hypervisor and in every major cloud. Its VPP data plane moves packets up to 15 times faster than the Linux kernel, so you get appliance-class throughput with the operational model of software: one configuration, commit and rollback, full automation.

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    Transparent and Audit-Friendly

    No black boxes between you and your network. Plain-text configuration, documented APIs and open standards mean every change can be reviewed, versioned and audited, and your network can be automated end to end.

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    Future-Proof by Design

    No hardware end-of-life. VyOS is software: when a server ages, you replace the server, not your network design. Every LTS release is supported for at least three years, and your configuration migrates automatically to the next one.

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    Predictable Cost at Any Scale

    No license fees per feature, throughput or device role. One on-premises subscription covers unlimited deployments within its scope, bare metal or virtual. In the cloud you pay as you go from the marketplace, with support included.

Features

For All Network Device Roles

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    Routing

    BGP (IPv4 and IPv6) with EVPN, OSPF (v2 and v3), IS-IS, RIP and RIPng, BFD for BGP, OSPF, IS-IS and static routes, policy-based routing, multicast routing, MPLS with LDP, and segment routing (SR-MPLS and SRv6).

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    VPN and Tunneling

    IPsec with VTI and DMVPN, WireGuard, OpenVPN (client, server and site-to-site), L2TP/IPsec, L2TPv3, VXLAN, GENEVE, and GRE, IPIP and SIT tunnels.

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    Firewall and NAT

    Stateful and zone-based firewall for IPv4 and IPv6, and every form of source and destination NAT, including NAT64, NAT66 and carrier-grade NAT.

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    Core Network Services

    DHCP and DHCPv6 server and relay, IPv6 router advertisements, DNS forwarding, PPPoE and IPoE access concentrator with RADIUS, VRFs, QoS and traffic shaping, WAN load balancing, NetFlow and sFlow export.

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    High availability

    VRRP for IPv4 and IPv6 with custom health checks and transition scripts, ECMP, stateful load balancing and connection state synchronization between nodes.

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    Automation

    REST and GraphQL APIs, Ansible, Salt, Netmiko, NAPALM and Terraform, cloud-init, containers, and a scripting API for Shell and Python.

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    VPP High-Performance Data Plane

    Accelerated IPv4 and IPv6 routing with OSPF and BGP, ACL and firewall processing, bonding (802.3ad, active-backup, layer 2 and layer 3+4 hashing), VXLAN, GRE, NAT44 and carrier-grade NAT, and IPsec.

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What Our
Customers Say

1000+ organizations rely on VyOS

Joel Dabao
Joel Dabao
Trustpilot Review

VyOS has been a strong partner, and we would recommend it to other ISPs, especially those managing growth at our scale.

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Tony Kairouz
Tony Kairouz
Customer Review

I use VyOS for a virtual router solution. VyOS solutions are great, and flexible.Throughput was a key requirement and Vyos delivered 10Gbps easily!The ability for VyOS to easily perform VLXAN and BGP was astonishing with its effortless ability.The greatest part was the VyOS support team. Excellent skillset and knowledge for in-depth network knowledge and ability to support clients through the VyOS platform.

I highly rate Vyos technically and its ability to perform the most complicated of requirements.

Kevin Latimer
Kevin Latimer
Customer Review

We’ve used VyOS for a decade now in all manner of applications, both physical and virtual. It powers everything from high-capacity LNS and Internet handoff with nearly a million BGP routes and multiple 10Gbps links to smaller virtualised instances right across the network.

Coming from a CLI background, the familiarity of its interface is a pleasant change from confusing GUIs, being simple to spin up an instance in just a few minutes but also able to create complex, yet easily understandable configurations. The guys at VyOS are a cut above and deserve a huge amount of credit for producing a best-in-class system that remains true to router-first principles while keeping clear from adding unnecessary bloat that plagues the current NGFW market. Looking forward to another decade with VyOS.

Muhammad Afdhal
Muhammad Afdhal
Customer Review

I use VyOS as a high-performance networking solution, and it has exceeded expectations in every aspect. VyOS delivers exceptional stability and reliability, effortlessly handling 10G interfaces without performance bottlenecks. Its support for BGP, VPN, and firewall features makes it a versatile choice for enterprise networks. One of the best aspects is how VyOS remains bug-free in production environments, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operations. Additionally, the support team is highly skilled and responsive, making implementation and troubleshooting seamless. VyOS is truly a top-tier open-source networking platform that I highly recommend.

Max Sörensen
Max Sörensen
Customer Review

As an ISP, one of our most important use cases is to be able to run full BGP tables without any issues. We have been using VyOS for this for years now and it has worked absolutely flawlessly. I don’t think we’ve ever had an issue with this, in fact.

We also use VyOS to host a couple of hundred server-networks and VyOS handles this with ease, even with some of our networks having crazy amounts of access-rules on them and often having consistently high throughput and burst rates.

Whenever we do experience issues or we simply have theoretical questions, it never feels like the support team is far away. We usually receive very quick and concise answers to our inquiries. It’s a very nice feeling to know that everyone that’s working on the VyOS project seem to be experts at it, it does a lot for our confidence in running VyOS as much as we do.

Layne Jester
Layne Jester
Trustpilot Review

I have nothing but good things to say about the VyOS Support Engineers. I think Dmitriy has owned our last 2 ticket, and the rest of the Support Team have all helped out. Taras, Yuriy, Jose, (and I hope I didn’t miss anyone) are quick to contribute and answer any questions I have. I believe it was Taras that even updated the VyOS/VMware doc to clarify a few things that I needed help understanding.

My boss just recently purchased a VyOS Subscription, or license, because we were experiencing a couple bizarre issues during our VyOS refresh of 30+ routers. We were struggling due to a single “show-stopper” issue, month after month, and not able to proceed with the rest of the refresh project. My boss, Daya Rajaratnam, decided we needed to get Commercial Support and open proper tickets and also to show our support of the VyOS Team.

Just hours after our Support PO went thru, I opened a ticket. I gave it a relatively low priority so I would know what to expect with future tickets. Its was great to see a response from an Engineer in just a couple hours. Fast forward a few days and the root cause was identified, I had a simple workaround in place and working in production(and had learned a lot from other Support Engineers that had contributed). What a HUGE load off my back to have that issue resolved with a reliable fix. 5 Stars for service, knowledge, and going above and beyond. (Hell, can I give them 10 stars?).

4 days later I opened a second ticket about an unrelated VTI issue that had also been plaguing us for many months. The experience was equally impressive and I again had a simple and reliable workaround.

Working with this group was a real pleasure.

Pavlin Dulev
Pavlin Dulev
Customer Review

I use Vyos from the beginning and his predecessor Vyatta. I like platform because has own style of architecture and similar cli like cisco and juniper.

I use platform to make migration from site to site or hybrid migration with Cloud.

I’d like that platform has all ipv6 attribute and use it very much.

Head of IT
Head of IT
Trustpilot Review

VyOS is the backbone of our company network since the early Vyatta 6.x days. It scales to meet your needs – from 256MB Alix-Board Low-Power Box for small branch offices to multi-processor rackmounted/virtualized network appliance – and is extremely easy to integrate with other systems like monitoring and configuration management. The excellent support from Sentrium turns it into a truely complete product that meets all our requirements.

Paul Theodoropoulos
Paul Theodoropoulos
Trustpilot Review

I’m happy to recommend VyOS/Sentrium. We first began using VyOS several years ago; we maintain a VPN from cellular vendor network to our infrastructure. Since moving our infrastructure permanently to AWS, we decided to sign up for Sentrium’s professional product and service.

I recently ran into a peculiar issue with the IPSEC VPN after a version upgrade – Sentrium staff worked with me to resolve it, and were very prompt in providing information and resolution. We are running two instances, a primary and a backup, and both are working splendidly, with seamless failover.

Dan Shechter
Dan Shechter
Trustpilot Review

Thank you for the prompt support. It is great to know that not only the product is a perfect fit for our needs, but also knowing that there is a professional support team we can rely on.

We use VYOS to connect distributed POPs to our data centers and provide secure Internet connectivity to the POPs.

Simon Östling
Simon Östling
Customer Review

I think you have a great product. Actually I like promoting your product to other customers and using it for demo purposes.

You are one of a kind today to support almost all network protocols.

Anthony Grevich
Anthony Grevich
Trustpilot Review

You guys are great on support. Thank You.

Reto Giezendanner
Reto Giezendanner
Customer Review

We are very excited about VyOS and use it as part of our products. VyOS convinces as a complete product with REST API and Wireguard support. The support is very fast and extremely competent.

FAQ

  • About VyOS

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  • Subscriptions and Support

  • About VyOS

  • Deploying VyOS

  • Subscriptions and Support

  • What do I get with a VyOS subscription?

    The software built for production, and the engineers behind it.

    A subscription gives you the long-term support (LTS) releases of VyOS, kept stable for years and backed by security patches and bug fixes for as long as each release is supported. It gives you the LTS images and package repositories for every platform we support, with no per-deployment fees.

    And it gives you direct access to VyOS network engineers through our customer support portal, with SLA options when you need committed response times, and professional services when you need help with design, migration or a proof of concept.

  • What is the difference between the rolling release and LTS, and which one should I run in production?

    The rolling release is built from the latest code at least once a day and goes through automated testing. It is free for everyone and is the right choice for labs, evaluation and non-critical use, but it is not hand-tested, and configuration syntax and APIs can change between builds.

    LTS releases are branched from the rolling release and receive only proven, compatible fixes, so configuration syntax and APIs stay stable for years. Run LTS in production and for anything you automate. LTS images are available to subscribers, contributors and VyOS for Good members.

  • What is VyOS Stream?

    VyOS Stream sits between the rolling release and LTS. It is a technology preview of the next LTS release, with new images roughly every quarter, and it is free for everyone. Features are only removed through a deprecation process and configuration changes are forward-compatible, so it is the best way to prepare your designs, automation and integrations for the next LTS before it ships.

    Use it for testing and non-critical environments; production belongs on LTS. Download it at vyos.net/get/stream.

  • How are VyOS releases numbered?

    VyOS LTS has two levels of release. A major release, such as 1.4 or 1.5, is a new generation of the platform: it brings new features and updated components, ships about every two years, and may change configuration syntax; when it does, your configuration is migrated automatically on upgrade.

    A minor release, such as 1.5.1 or 1.5.2, is a maintenance release within a major: it delivers security fixes, bug fixes and selected improvements about three times a year, never changes configuration syntax or removes features, and is installed as an in-place image upgrade. Critical security fixes are published outside this schedule when needed. Two major releases are supported in parallel, so you choose when to move to the next major.

  • How long is each release supported?

    Every major LTS release is supported for three years from its release date, and security and bug fixes reach you through its minor releases during that time. Within a major release, support covers the three most recent minor releases, so staying current with minor updates keeps you fully supported (Extended support beyond three years is available on request).

    Because a new major ships about every two years, there is around a year of overlap in which both majors are supported, which is your window to test and migrate. If you manage VyOS through automation, validate your playbooks and templates after a major upgrade; minor releases keep configuration syntax and APIs unchanged.

  • An LTS release is based on a Debian version that has reached end of life. Is it still patched?

    Yes. Our release cycle is not tied to Debian's. We sponsor extended long-term support for those Debian versions through Freexian and build many packages from source ourselves, so supported LTS releases keep receiving security fixes.

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