SoftLayer Tutorial Twenty Five - Part 1 - The Return to Vyatta
Channel: Eamonn Killian
Date: 08/10/2015

Its been a while coming but the time has come to cover VyOS/Vyatta in much more detail. This tutorial will attempt to cover in as much detail as possible how to create a lab environment using Virtualbox, GNS3 and VyOS to emulate a real SoftLayer environment. The purpose is to help others learn how to do things on Vyatta in SoftLayer - specifically:

- Understanding and detailing traffic flows;
- Baselining Vyatta machines;
- Configuring bonded interfaces on our routers;
- Configuring highly available routing with VRRP;
- Configuring multiple VLANs on our router pair in London;
- Preparing for Zone based firewalls by building a Zone Map;
- Configuring emulated SoftLayer private networks group;
- Configuring firewall rules;
- Implementing Zone based firewalls