Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
Several months ago I posted setting up TorGuard’s WireGuard and the following post adding a policy base routing. You can view the posts here: VyOS and Torguard VyOS and Torguard – part 2 TorGuard has phased out the WireGuard Network and got moved under Tools > Config Generator. To generate a new WireGuard config, you […]
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If you are looking for traffic engineering your traffic into Torguard’s WireGuard server, I hope this post will be some kind of help or at least help point you to what you are looking for. What we have done from the previous post, we have enabled WireGuard and configured VyOS WireGuard to establish a secure
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I have been struggling trying to get the Torguard’s OpenVPN to work with my VyOS. Fortunately, Torguard supports WireGuard. WireGuard is probably the easiest VPN to setup. If you are using Torguard as your VPN provider, you are in luck. WireGuard is probably the best option. This post is how to connect VyOS to Torguard’s
Have you encountered an issue with your VyOS instance where after upgrading the system, the interfaces either missing or got mixed around? I have been dealing with this issue with my Supermicro MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O board with Intel x520-DA2. It is a hit and miss issue. The symptoms are the hardware MAC address of each interface got
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I just want to say this and this is also has mentioned in the VyOS wiki that despite VyOS is based off Debian Linux, do not use apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade; otherwise, you will break your VyOS instance. There are several ways of upgrading the system. The first one is to use the direct
I was upgrading the Cisco SD-WAN routers recently. According the Cisco, to manually up upgrade the ASR1002-HX via USB stick. The USB must not bigger than 32GB and must be formatted in FAT32 format. Anyways I have I spare USB 32GB laying around and planning to upgrade my VyOS router/firewall via USB stick. I thought
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I just want to say that my affiliation with VyOS project and Sentrium has nothing to do with this post. This post is completely my own opinion and work; any mistakes made in this post is not related to VyOS projects and Sentrium. Since VyOS 1.2.0, VyOS LTS releases can only be downloaded via the
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This post is the continuation of last week post about the basic operation of Mikrotik RouterOS on CRS3xx. Safe Mode There is this thing called Safe Mode. What this feature does is to prevent the remote admin from getting lock out of the system. A good use case is when configuring the device remotely. How
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Apparently, the CRS series has two operating systems. The default OS is called RouterOS (ROS) and the other is called SwOS. The default IP address to access the CRS328 is 192.168.88.1. The management can be accessed via SSH, web UI (http) and Winbox, a Windows desktop client. The default login credentials for SSH, web UI
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I created several stencils for VyOS. These are not the official VyOS stencils, but an unofficial one. The outcome came out pretty nicely, so I think I would share them. I made these four stencils using draw.io. See the comment section for the download link. Unzip the .zip file and let me know what do