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#vyos
$ grep -l "vyos" ~/posts/* | wc -l → 8
2026
BGP Roles and OTC: Route Leak Prevention Built Into BGP
RFC 9234 adds roles to BGP sessions and an Only-to-Customer attribute to routes. Together they stop the most common kind of route leak automatically. What it does, and how to enable it on VyOS.
2025
Designing a BGP Large Community Scheme for a Small Network
Communities are the cheapest form of documentation your network has. A practical large community scheme for a small AS: tagging where routes come from, and letting peers and customers steer how you announce them.
NetBox Config Templates for VyOS
Peering Manager generates my BGP sessions; NetBox knows everything else about the router. With NetBox config templates you can render the base VyOS configuration straight from your source of truth.
RPKI Route Origin Validation on VyOS with Routinator
Dropping RPKI-invalid routes on VyOS is a handful of commands. Here is how I set up Routinator as a validator, connect VyOS to it over RTR and filter invalids on every eBGP session.
2024
Using Peering Manager for Automated Configuration on VyOS
Peering Manager is an open-source BGP session management solution including Peeringdb synchronization for automating session management. Peering…
VyOS - 100Gbit BGP - Part 2
In the previous blog I did a test between two Vyos hosts, indirectly connected to each other with two switches. It was amazing how easily Vyos could…
VyOS - 100Gbit BGP - Part 1
I have been using VyOS as a routing platform for various networks and projects for a long time with great success. With speeds between 1-40Gbit, I…
VyOS 10gbe throughput optimization
Disable offloading, enable ntuple Configure MAX RPS flow counts for queues TCP Tweaks: Setting the MaxReadReq to 2048 Disable all offloading on the…