Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Home networking... but not /r/homenetworking... What is the best virtual router OS for road warriors?

I have a collection of work-from-home and mobile users who are going to need to move to a hardware VPN solution. Most of these users are highly technical and familiar with VM operation.

We have decided to issue Supermicro Sys E300 D systems as hypervisor platforms to be issued to "Road warriors" or work-from-home types, as it's a platform that is able to run hyper-V, VMWare, CentOS with KVM, or anything else, it has 6x 1G network adapters, and 2x 10G network adapters.

Anyway, we are looking for suggestions on virtual machine instances to run as a "remotely managed NAT/SoHo router".

Free is nice, but not a requirement. Required features:

  • v4 nat/routing
  • v6 routing
  • ipsec tunneling back to HQ (bonus points if it's dynamically self-configuring and doesn't depend on static IP address configurations for branch locations)
  • AD/radius authentication
  • typical stateful firewall operation
  • dns server with caching
  • basic antivirus/botnet protection is a plus, not required
  • SNMP or other remote monitoring/logging
  • policy based firewall application from a centrally managed control point

I think what I'm looking for is... [you know what, i'm not going to say what I think I want, because I want to ask for unbiased opinions. I'll update this later with what I (thought) i wanted.]

The solution should be able to run "well" on 8GB of ram, 5GB of SSD.



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