Vyatta VC4 First Steps

Let's say you install Vyatta without problems.

You can login as vyatta and switch to root with su when necessary.

After installation you have to enable at least one interface, and set up internet access.

In my case in test environment I hooked the machine to my local network and set the interface to dhcp.

configure
set interfaces ethernet eth0 dhcp
commit

This got me a working internet access.
I could now also acces the system by ssh, rather than console.

configure
set service ssh
commit

Warning! Due to the infamous Debian OpenSSL bug and since Vyatta is Debian-based, it is necessary to upgrade OpenSSL packages and re-create ssh keys.

With this in my mind, I realized that it was not a good idea to enable ssh right away. I'll probably have more work than in case I upgraded the system first.
Advice: upgrade first, then enable ssh.

Now it is a good idea to add some repositories. I added Vyatta and Debian from my closest mirror.

configure
set system package repository vyatta components main
set system package repository vyatta distribution stable
set system package repository vyatta url http://packages.vyatta.com/vyatta/
set system package repository debian components main
set system package repository debian distribution stable
set system package repository debian url http://ftp.si.debian.org/debian/
commit

We can finally upgrade packages now.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

As of time of writing, only OpenSSL package is being upgraded, using Vyatta VC4.0.2 .

Since we added Debian repository as well, we can also install additional packages that are not available from Vyatta repository.