How to set up QoS bandwidth rate limit on Vyatta router

If you are running a network shared by multiple devices, you probably want to set up QoS policies (e.g., average bandwidth rate, burst size), so that network bandwidth is properly shared by them. Vyatta software router supports powerful QoS settings. You can easily define any QoS policy, and bind the policy to a specific network interface/port, or to specific types of traffic, etc.Read more »

How to set up DHCP and NAT on Vyatta router

Vyatta is a feature-rich enterprise class software router. You can download a free community version of Vyatta as well. Vyatta router can easily be built on a physical machine via a well-packaged LiveCD, or on a VMware/Xen VM via ready-made virtual appliance. As a ready-made software router, Vyatta can be configured extremely easily as a NAT gateway with DHCP, DNS and NAT functionality.Read more »

How to enable ssh access on Vyatta router

A fresh installation of Vyatta does not have SSH access enabled by default. Thus, if you would like to SSH to a Vyatta router, you first need to enable SSH service. In order to enable SSH access on Vyatta router, enter the following commands via its console.Read more »

How to reload config.boot in Vyatta

Vyatta an open-source virtual router operating system based on a customized Debian distribution. Vyatta can easily be installed on virtual machines (VMs) created by standard hypervisors such as Xen, KVM and VMware, to implement virtual networking for VMs. Vyatta offers a specialized management console as well as web-based management interface to configure system settings such as network interfaces, firewall rules, QoS policy, etc. If you are reconfiguring Vyatta via its management console, you may want to know how to reload Vyatta configuration after you are done.Read more »