Virtual Routing

Anyone know of any free virtual routing solutions?

I am trying to setup seperate networks at home and want to enable routing in order to mimic different scenarios (trusts, vpns) from seperare networks.

I have found FreeSCO, but it seems HyperV isnt supported. Anyone else have anything?

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stuh84

Vyatta Open Networking - Software-based Routing & Security - Open Alternative to Cisco of any use?

MrAgent

Im actually installing that now into a Hyper V VM. Only problem with that is no mouse support. Im hoping itll have some sort of web interface to admin.

I really wish there was mouse support in hyper v for *nix

MentholMoose

MrAgent wrote: »

Im actually installing that now into a Hyper V VM. Only problem with that is no mouse support. Im hoping itll have some sort of web interface to admin.

I really wish there was mouse support in hyper v for *nix

Vyatta has a web-based GUI. There are some videos available for getting started with Vyatta:
Router, Firewall, VPN | Vyatta Online Demonstrations

scott28tt

I've used m0n0wall before for it's NAT, routing and firewall capabilities - it has a web-based GUI too

http://m0n0.ch/wall/features.php

MentholMoose

m0n0wall is another good choice, and Smoothwall can do it, too. I personally use a standard Linux install to accomplish this, typically Fedora or CentOS, though any distribution should work fine. This lets me use standard Linux CLI tools I already know.

MrAgent

So I tried vyatta, in a virtual environment, and it is not able to detect my NIC. I may try one of your other suggestions. Thanks for the help so far.

MentholMoose

What NIC type did you configure for the VM in Hyper-V?

MrAgent

Its a realtek NIC. Its only linux installations that dont detect it. My Windows VMs detect it just fine.

Fugazi1000

For Vyatta on Hyper-V just create a VM and add legacy NICs. The free version will work a treat for simple routing between subnets. Some of the features you have to pay for. Works in 128Mb RAM (the install suggests 512Mb).

Another option to consider is 'DummyCloud v3.0'. It's not quite GUI - but uses 'DOS' style menus to configure. The real benefit is you can limit bandwidth and introduce latency between subnets. The free version limits you to 100ms and 5Mb/s - or run it in 'router only' mode. A little bit of work to get the VMware OVA into Hyper-V but does work.

docrice

You can use Linux or BSD as a router. I use OpenBSD at home and it's a pretty simple configuration using multiple virtual interfaces and pf to perform NAT (if needed) and firewalling. With pf you can also set up CARP and have two of them side-by-side as a failover solution. While it's not GUI-driven, it's fast, lightweight, and in a home lab environment you can allocate a mere 64 MB of memory to the OS and it will just run and run.

OpenBSD also has built-in IPsec support.

http://kimiushida.com/bitsandpieces/articles/openbsd_ipsec_site-to-site/

The site-to-site IPsec setup should take you about 15 minutes if you're comfortable with editing config files.

If you absolutely need a GUI, Openwall, pfSense, m0n0wall, etc. will work as well, although I like routing nodes to have as little overhead as possible.

I'm basing all this off my experience in VMware ESXi, however, not Hyper-V.

MrAgent

Awesome! Adding a legacy NIC worked like a charm. If only I could add virtual NICs into Windows 2008. That would be hot.