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

Powering Networks Worldwide

1000+ organizations rely on VyOS

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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.

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    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.

Explore VyOS Use Cases

Whether you have servers in your office, in your data center, or on the cloud – VyOS can be used to establish a secure access to and between any of them.
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Resources

Here are some resources to help you learn more about VyOS, keep up with the development, and participate in it.

FAQ

  • Is VyOS free and open-source software?

    Yes. The complete codebase of the base VyOS system is publicly available under various OSI-approved licenses (mainly GPLv2 for executables and LGPLv2 for libraries).

    For the rolling release, we also maintain publicly available package repositories to simplify building images, so that contributors do not have to build images completely from source. For LTS releases, only the source code is available.

  • What platforms does VyOS support?

    VyOS can be installed on a wide range of off-the-shelf servers and network appliances. We provide special images for some hardware platforms. It also runs on all major hypervisors and cloud environments, including KVM, VMware, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, Equinix Metal, and more.

  • What CPU architectures does VyOS support?

    VyOS currently only supports x86-64 CPUs. We may add support for aarch64 and RISC-V in the future, depending on the state of the network hardware and virtualization market for those platforms.

  • What are the minimum hardware requirements?

    The smallest amount of RAM that VyOS can boot with is 512MB. Trying to boot VyOS on machines with less RAM will result in boot errors.

    Otherwise, hardware requirements vary greatly between use cases. For small office use, low end CPUs and 1024MB RAM should be more than enough.

    For high performance routers, high end CPUs and large amounts of RAM are required.

  • What is the VyOS Release Model?

    There are two types of VyOS releases: the rolling release and long term support branches.

    The rolling release branch (git branch “current”) includes the latest code from maintainers and community contributors. It’s tested by an automated test suite and suitable for testing, home lab, and non-critical router use, but may contain experimental features that have not received extensive field testing yet and their config syntax and API may change.

    Long term support branches are periodically split from the current branch. They are stable, and only proven, strictly compatible changes are merged or backported into them. Their config syntax and APIs are guaranteed to remain unchanged, which is important for enterprise users and automation tools.

    Images of the rolling release are public, while long term support release images are only available to subscribers and contributors in binary form.

  • A VyOS LTS release is based on a Debian version that has reached end of support, does it mean that security vulnerabilities remain unpatched?

    VyOS release cycle is not synchronized with Debian and we often do have LTS releases based on Debian versions that reach the end of mainstream support before the end of our own LTS release support cycle. That does not mean that such releases are insecure. We are sponsoring extended LTS for those Debian versions from Freexian and we build many packages from source ourselves.

  • What is the release lifecycle?

    We produce a new LTS release about every two years. New LTS releases may feature significant configuration syntax changes — they are almost always automatically converted on upgrade so there is no need for manual migration, but automation tools may require adjustments for new LTS releases.

    Every LTS branch is then supported for at least three years, with a possibility of extended support if there is customer demand for it.

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