Vyatta开源软件软件使用评测

　　vyatta公司是一家开源技术公司，他们目前的任务是将XORP（可扩展开源路由器平台）带入商用领域，使得它成为一款企业家的开源路由器软件。他们想成为Linux领域中的red hat公司，或者说，VoIP领域中正在逐渐强大的Asterisk公司。

　　Vyatta is an open source company that hopes to take the XORP (i.e., extensible open source router platform) and make it a commercially viable, enterprise-ready product. Pronounced "vee-atta," Vyatta wants to do for routers what Red Hat did for Linux and what Asterisk is trying to do with VoIP. (For some background, see George Ou's blog post, "Open source routers shine at Vyatta secret society.")

　　What does Vyatta have to offer?

　　Before we discuss the possibility of open source routers replacing your Cisco routers, let's examine who Vyatta is what this company has to offer. Using Vyatta, you can take a standard Intel PC or server and turn it into a router and firewall. All you need to do is download the Vyatta live CD image from the company's Web site and boot from it--no real install is necessary.

　　In my opinion, anything you want to do with a standard Cisco router, you can do with Vyatta for the most part, and you don't have to worry about the various Cisco IOS licenses. Here's a list of some of the standard features it includes: