# Vyatta I was evaulating a security tool and needed a few routers in a lab enviornment running ssh and a snmp server. Vyatta is a quick solution that fits that requirement. Vyatta is a software based virtual router that boots from a debian linux live cd. It's had an interesting [lifecycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyatta) starting open source, then going closed source, switching companies a few times, and has an "open source" fork vyos. I was having issues with the latest vyos rolling not booting (Vyos stable releases require a large yearly fee), so I grabbed a copy of the old version of vyatta from https://archiveos.org/vyatta/ It's very outdated, but very quick to boot and easy to setup. Simply create a new vm with vmware or virtualbox using the iso image with 512mb ram. Once booted you can login with username `vyatta` password `vyatta`. Out of box it will not enable a dhcp client, but you can do so with ``` configure edit interfaces ethernet eth0 set address dhcp commit up exit ip addr show ``` You can enable an snmp server with ``` edit service snmp community public set authorization rw commit exit show service ``` You can enable a ssh server with ``` set service ssh commit show service ``` And can change the hostname with ``` sudo su hostname vyattanew nano /etc/hostname nano /etc/hosts exit ``` Additional docs are available on [docs.vyatta.com](https://docs.vyatta.com/en/supported-platforms/vnf) to enable more functionality. Glad to see it is still working after all these years. Changing vmware so the operating system type was debian 8 x64 let me boot vyos properly. Weird. Nice to know the same commands for vyatta also still work on vyos and things haven't changed too much.