Optimizing power consumption in high-end routers
Guest Post: The power consumption of high-end routers is a hot topic. Who’s to blame for all this heat?
Tag: routers
Router security in 2021
Guest Post: Cybercriminals now see home routers as gateways to corporate networks, and companies as potential attack vectors.
Small / Home Office network IPv6 wish list
Guest Post: Have a request for router IPv6 support? Add it to the list.
How to: Edge router and BNG optimization
Guest Post: Best practice implementation guide for ISPs using MikroTik RouterOS to provide access via PPPoE or MikroTik for their edge/core routers.
Modern router architecture and IPv6
Guest Post: In some ways, IPv6 was designed as a more processor-friendly protocol than IPv4. However, its extensible nature still presents some challenges.
Palmtree router: A secure and private Internet gateway
Guest Post: Palmtree Router is a new project built from open source tools to provide a private Internet gateway.
Do you trust your home router?
Guest Post: A team of cybersecurity researchers are seeking to understand how malware infects home routers to develop ways to protect them from being used in DDoS attacks.
Should we trust the geolocation databases to geolocate routers?
Guest Post: Geolocation databases are used by researchers and network operators to learn the real-world location of a given IP address. But how reliable are these in terms of coverage and accuracy at both country- and city-level resolutions?
Turris Omnia: NIC.CZ open-design router
GGM reviews the Turris Omnia project – a publicly funded starter project to design and build a fully open specification home router.
OSPF Topology Database- Design Optimization Principle of ISP IGP Routing
Perhaps every network engineer has got some understanding about OSPF LSDB (Open Shortest Path First Link State Database) but how many can read the topology table on a router and decide which LSAs are necessary and which are not for an ISP network?