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

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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 networking performance through a modern software-defined architecture. With an integrated high-performance data plane and a consistent operational model, VyOS enables higher throughput and improved efficiency while preserving full routing, firewall, and VPN functionality.

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    Transparent and Audit-Friendly

    With full access to the source code, you can audit, customize, and adapt your network infrastructure to meet your unique needs. Trust is built into our DNA.

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    Future-Proof by Design

    Say goodbye to "End-of-Life" announcements. VyOS evolves with your business, with continuous updates and a global community driving innovation.

  • cost-effective

    Cost-Sustainable and Scalable

    Optimize your investment with a single subscription model that covers all your deployments, bare metal, virtualized, or cloud-native.

Features

For All Network Device Roles

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    Routing

    BGP (IPv4 and IPv6), OSPF (v2 and v3), BFD(BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Static), RIP (v1 & v2), RIPng, IS-IS, policy-based routing and Multicast Routing +MPLS LDP

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    Virtual Private Networks & Tunneling

    IPsec, VTI, VXLAN, L2TPv3, L2TP/IPsec and PPTP servers, tunnel interfaces (GRE, IPIP, SIT), OpenVPN in client, server, or site-to-site mode, wireguard. +GENEVE

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    Firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT)

    Stateful firewall, zone-based firewall, and all types of source and destination NAT 

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    Core Network Services

    DHCP and DHCPv6 server and relay, IPv6 RA, DNS forwarding, TFTP server, web proxy, PPPoE access concentrator, NetFlow/sFlow sensor, QoS.+IPoE +VRFs support +WanLB

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    High availability

    VRRP for IPv4 and IPv6, ability to execute custom health checks and transition scripts; ECMP, stateful load balancing.

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    Automation-friendly

    Native Support for API (GraphQL), Configuration-Management/IaaC Tools (Ansible/salt/Netmiko/NAPALM/Terraform), Cloud-init(own config-modules), Containers and Scripting API for Shell and Python.

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    VPP - High Performance Dataplane Acceleration

    Bonding Interfaces ( layer2, layer2+3, layer3+4, 802.3ad, active-backup), ipv4/ipv6 unicast routing, Dynamic protocols (OSPF+BGP IPv4/IPv6), VxLAN, GRE, NAT44, CGNAT, IPsec tunnel.

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