Deploying a Vyatta Core Firewall

This paper is intended to provide a practical installation guide for deploying a network firewall utilizing Vyatta Core 6.0, an open source network security product. Vyatta systems are intended as a lower cost replacement for Cisco routers and security appliances. This paper is ideal for small or medium sized organizations that have IT support and desire to replace or enhance existing security appliances but are faced with ever tightening budgets. Although the scope of this paper will focus on protecting a development server farm, this paper can be used as guidance for deployment at the border or other location on the network. Readers of this paper will benefit from the introduction and exploration of a lower cost, open source alternative to commercial security appliances.