Our latest version of TNSR® software, Release 21.07, is now available. Most of our readers are well familiar with TNSR. But for those who may be new to our blog, TNSR is a vRouter solution that integrates Linux Networking Foundation FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP), Free Range Routing (FRR), Clixon, and other open-source projects into a production-ready, secure networking solution capable of addressing the high-performance edge routing, cloud connectivity, and robust IPsec site-to-site VPN needs of businesses and service providers. TNSR saves organizations from expending the needed internal expertise, time, and cost required to convert open-source software into commercial solutions.
Since our last release in March, the product's user base has grown 43% to over 2,500 entities. Customer growth and production-environment deployment expansion continues to drive development focus on improved configuration flexibility, operational management, and system resilience.
Key improvements to TNSR software added or improved in TNSR Software Release 21.07 include:
CLI
Fixes for command generation for several modules, including: ACLs, FRR, NAT, BGP, VRRP, DNS, GRE, VXLAN, and IPv6
DHCP Server
During this development period, we also began the effort to move the underlying OS base from CentOS to Ubuntu. Given the recently announced shift from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream, we feel that this effort is what our customers need. We expect to finish this effort, and to have it be commercially ready for users in November.
For more information including a full rundown of adds and changes for Release 21.07, see our release notes here. Want to learn more about TNSR? Click here. Want to jump right to it and get started with a no charge Home + Lab instance? Click here.