- Virtual solution
- Data routing
- Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)
- Building a secure network (NAT, Firewall)
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IPS/IDS)¹
- Filtering of network data by various criteria (including filtering by applications)
- Organization of secure network tunnels between different offices of a company
- Remote connection of staff members to an office
- Internet channel management and bandwidth allocation within an office using QoS
- Organization of redundant connection
- Subscriber termination, bandwidth shaping, IPoE BRAS*
vESR is a virtual service router designed for connection of small and middle-sized offices in enterprise networks. The functionality of firewall and router allows ensuring security with various Internet connection options. vESR supports advanced routing, WAN organization and network security functions.
* Available only with option vESR FREE. Support for other options will be implemented in future versions.
Remote Access VPN client
- PPTP/PPPoE/L2TP/OpenVPN/IPsec XAUTH
Remote Access VPN server
- L2TP/PPTP/OpenVPN/IPsec XAUTH
Site-to-site VPN
- IPsec: “policy-based” and “route-based” modes1
- DMVPN
- DES, 3DES, AES, Blowfish, Camellia encryption algorithms
- IKE MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 message authentication
Tunneling
- IPoGRE, EoGRE
- IPIP
- L2TPv3
- LT (inter VRF routing)
L2 functions
- Packet switching (bridging)
- LAG/LACP (802.3ad)
- VLAN (802.1Q)
- Logical interfaces
- LLDP, LLDP MED
- MAC-based VLAN
- STP, RSTP
L3 functions (IPv4/IPv6)
- NAT, Static NAT, ALG
- Static routes
- RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2/v3, IS-IS, BGP dynamic protocols1
- Route filtering (prefix list)
- VRF
- GRE fragmentation (IPoGRE, EoGRE, MPLS over GRE)
- Policy Based Routing (PBR)
- BFD for BGP, OSPF, static routes
IP addressing management (IPv4/IPv6)
- Static IP addresses
- DHCP client
- DHCP Relay Option 82
- Embedded DHCP server, 43, 60, 61, 150 options support
- IP unnumbered
- DNS resolver
MPLS
- LDP
- L2VPN VPWS
- L2VPN VPLS Martini Mode
- L2VPN VPLS Kompella Mode
- L3VPN MP-BGP
- MPLS over GRE
IPoE BRAS2
- Subscriber termination
- User authentication by MAC or IP address
- Session accounting via NetFlow protocol
- White/black URL lists
- Quotas for traffic volume, session time, network applications
- HTTP/HTTPS Proxy
- HTTP/HTTPS Redirect
Network security functions
- Intrusion Prevention/Detection System (IPS/IDS)2
- Web filtering by URL, by content (cookies, ActiveX, JavaScript)
- Filtering based on L2/L3/L4 fields and applications
- Support for access control lists (ACL) based on L2/L3/L4 fields
- Zone-based firewall
- Protection against DoS/DDoS attacks and notification on them
- Logging of attacks and rule triggering events
Quality of Service (QoS)
- Up to 8 priority or weighted queues per port
- L2- and L3 traffic prioritization (802.1p (CoS), DSCP, IP Precedence (ToS))
- RED, GRED congestion avoidance algorithms
- Priority re-marking mechanisms
- Policy-map
- Bandwidth management (shaping)
- Hierarchical QоS
- Session labeling
Network reliability assurance means
- VRRP v2,v3
- WAN interfaces load balancing, data stream redirection, channel switching during QoS control
- Firewall sessions backup
Management and monitoring
- Support for standard and extended SNMP MIB, RMONv1
- Embedded Zabbix agent
- User authentication using local database via RADIUS, TACACS+, LDAP
- Protection against configuration errors, automatic configuration recovery
- Ability to restore the default factory configuration
- CLI
- Syslog
- System resource usage monitoring
- Ping, traceroute (IPv4/IPv6), packet information in the console output
- Firmware upgrade, configuration upload and download via TFTP, SCP, FTP, SFTP, HTTP(S)
- Support for NTP
- Netflow v5/v9/v10 (exporting of URL statistics for HTTP, host for HTTPS)
- Local control via RS-232 console port
- Remote control via Telnet, SSH (IPv4/IPv6)
- Displaying information on services/processes
- Local/remote router configuration storage
Minimum system requirements3
- Processor:
- x86-64 architecture, clock frequency of at least 1.8 GHz
- Support for MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 instructions (processor generation Intel Nehalem/AMD Barcelona CPU or higher)
- RAM - Not less than 3 GB
- Storage - Not less than 375 MB
- Hypervisors - VirtualBox 6.0, ESXi 6.7
- I/O:
- Emulation - Intel E1000, Intel E1000E, VMXNET2, VMXNET3
- Paravirtualization - VirtIO
- PCI Pass-through - Intel XL710 Ethernet Controller (2x40/1x40/4x10/2x20/2x10/1x10), Intel X722 Ethernet Controller (2x10/4x10)
Functionality for firmware version 1.18.2.
1Corresponds to option vESR FREE. The full functionality is activated by a license.
2Available only with option vESR FREE. Support for other options will be implemented in future versions.
3The given requirements allow the installation of vESR and initial start-up with basic configuration.