Lost with all the EVE-NG images choice : which router image is free to use ?

[metanbeky]

Hey,



Out of curiosity : are there any images that could be used freely in EVE-NG to work on some networking projects ? There are so many brands and images available in EVE-NG that I'm quite lost. By free I mean that I could use it to do a demo to my boss without putting the company at risk

10.0.0.0.1 192.168.1.254

Let's say, I want to work on some funky BGP peering scenarios. Is there anything that can be uploaded to EVE-NG, completely legal ? I'm familiar with Cisco boxes, so something that is or looks like it is great, but I'm more interested in proving concepts than sticking to a known CLI



For the details, my EVE-NG runs on a couple of Macs (a Macbook Pro and a Hackintosh), and I got a sweet deal earlier this week on a 192GB RAM, dual Xeon (16 cores) that will be put to good use (planning to run EVE_NG and the family Minecraft server on top of Proxmox, along with CentOS to recertify my RHCE). In the same rack is a Cisco Catalyst, and ... an OctoPre from Focusrite. Nothing to do with lab (it's sound engineering stuff), but it's a 19 inches devices, and my lab is in the same basement as my recording booth



Thanks !

[Grrrshark]

I think (have not played with them in awhile) you can get the cumulus image for free, and also pfsense/opnsense.

[bitbyte]

there are a few options for strictly free software. you'll need to dive into the license details of each solution and determine if their terms are applicable to your use case.
(which sounds like commercial/corporate related use)

VyOS has made its nightly releases free to use.
There's also some linux packages: Quagga, OpenBGPd or FRR that will run on any linux VM.
pfsense has BGP-capable extensions as well.

to me the main problem is the time needed to set up the free software to do just a demo, while at the end you'll probably go for a paid solution instead.
What if some feature is broken? who will give support?

You could also ask your vendor for some demo licenses and be generic on the hypervisor: "these will run in a KVM environment for a demo with XYZ goals"