MikroTik as a home router
Guest Post: No homelab can be complete without a proper networking setup. Proceed at your own risk! (… it’s worth it)
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Asia Pacific privacy laws are arriving. Your NREN holds more personal data than you think.
Guest Post: Privacy compliance starts with knowing your data. Many NREN services, including federated identity, eduroam, CSIRT operations, and network telemetry, process personal data and may already fall under emerging privacy laws.
IPv6 address planning: From ‘bit conservation’ to ‘elegant alignment’
Guest Post: When planning IPv6 addressing schemes, many engineers still carry over habits from the IPv4 era. The instinct is to conserve every possible bit and to compress region, service, and network type information into the smallest space that meets current needs. While this approach once made sense, it is poorly suited to IPv6.
SSH key exchange failures when managing legacy network devices
Guest Post: How to restore access to legacy network devices when modern SSH clients reject outdated cryptography.
BGP Router ID structuring in IPv6 native networks
Guest Post: How to design and structure BGP Router IDs in IPv6-native networks.
NIST updates its secure DNS deployment guide: What operators need to know
NIST’s updated DNS deployment guide treats DNS as a core security control, offering practical guidance on protective DNS, encryption, DNSSEC, and both authoritative and recursive operations to help operators strengthen resilience, visibility, and policy enforcement.
Setting up Akvorado: A NetFlow analyser for your IPv6-first network
How to deploy Akvorado in a SOHO network to gain real-time visibility into traffic flows and improve IPv6 performance.
Project IPv6-first: A case study in achieving an 80% native IPv6 SOHO network
Guest Post: How a modern SOHO network can achieve an 80% native IPv6 ratio by leveraging NetFlow insights to identify residual IPv4 paths and eliminate them.
RPKI vs social engineering: A case study in route hijacking
Guest Post: A short BGP hijack in 2025 showed how routing security can fail when attackers exploit weaknesses in provider onboarding.
Strengthening network security and visibility through APNIC products and tools
How APNIC products and tools can strengthen your network security and improve routing visibility in this upcoming webinar.