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I think there should be an hardware appliance référence section on the wiki or elsewhere.

What is great with Vyos is that it can run on every PC or VM. But when you want to deploy VPN with third party you need hardware appliances that looks like a router, not a Desktop PC

We already own a few Vyatta appliances with no issues but need some more.

I had hard time getting a functionnal appliance with VyOS. First mini PC was directly bought by a customer and we did not manage to install VyOS. We have to revert to ubuntu to set up L2TPv3 VPN.

Recently I bought another appliance and that was a try and guess game to install. (Hard to figure out that console went blanck because linux reverted serial link speed to 9600 during boot). Then I had to deal with USB issues.

This will be really helpfull to have data about which appliance have been tested by the community and how they manage to install VyOS on it.

I started a network appliance page on the wiki but it needs a lot of refactor.

For instance it would be nice to have data about performance.
Version, date, kind of appliance

What do you think of the idea ? What do you need to know when buying hardware ?
Thanks for your comments.

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Lunatic (nearly impossible)

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thomas.courbon created this object with edit policy "All Users".
syncer added subscribers: VyOS 1.1.x, VyOS 2.0.x, syncer.

Hello @thomas.courbon

What you are telling is completely true.
Idea is maybe not only focus on appliances but rather build some HCL

Thanks for your comment. I did some refactor. It is now a table with a link to details.
http://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/Network_appliances

What do you mean by HCL ? hardware like ethernet cards or chipsets ?
Maybe there is some clever way to refer to debian hcl or some other existing lists: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ ?

The most important for me is have a list of "qualified" hardware. It may be hard to install, but the point is to know it before buying.

Also the list can be used to identify generic issues and generic work arounds.

Now waiting for someone to add hardware :-)

I wonder if I should add where I bought the appliance ?

HCL - Hardware Compatibility List
But not generic one, more like focused on VyOS (not only booting but actually working well)
There is no defined form how it should look like,
I like your variant of the page!
Good start!

syncer edited projects, added Restricted Project; removed VyOS 2.0.x, VyOS 1.1.x.Aug 21 2017, 2:44 AM

Moving this to documentation project