alt Hacker NewsI'm more than happy with VyOS. Throw that in proxmox and you have an open source JunOS with zero license headache.
I do use Mikrotik for 2.5g switching though, zero complaints.
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donmcronald • yesterday at 4:18 AM
> zero license headache
Isn’t it a subscription? And super expensive? $3k/year/device was the cheapest thing I saw on their site or $12k/5 years. 25k/year for an MSP. On a 5 year cycle we’d need to manage thousands on devices to make it more attractive than pfsense (cost wise).
I really wanted to try it a few years ago but they seem like just another tech company that only wants millionaire customers.
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How are you managing updates?
I absolutely loved vyos but after their repeated hostility towards non paying users I moved to mikrotik for my routers (already had mikrotik switches).
First they stopped publishing LTS images, telling users to build from source. So people built gh repos you could clone and build with actions. Then they stopped making lts builds reproducible and told free users to use the preview release. But the preview release doesn’t get security updates. So if there’s a vulnerability you’re SOL until the next release which could be months. Not really tenable for an edge device for me and I’m not very interested in being a user of a product that does not want me.