Loopback and the dummies
"There is no place like 127.0.0.1" the old saying goes. While the loopback interface is most often seen as the interface where the 127.0.0.1 address is assigned...
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Naming of the nightly builds
Historically, we used to use "999.$timestamp" version numbers for development builds, including nightly builds. In our build scripts termninology, a development...
VyOS to leverage the blockchain technology
Wild success of the blockchain technology on the mass market in the past couple of years is truly remarkable and it allowed many startups to raise substantial c...
Take a third option: site to site OpenVPN
I've written a long series of post about setting up IPsec VPNs between NATed machines. As you've already seen, with some creative configuration it's possible, b...
Ongoing improvements in project
Hi everyone, While developers are working on the 1.2.0 release candidate, myself I’ve been looking into ways to improve the social and commercial aspects of pro...
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How to use AS path matching in your BGP policies
AS path is one of the most fundamental attributes of a (e)BGP advertisments. Its length is the first parameter in the best path selection algorithm (shorter is ...
Firewall groups today and tomorrow
Substantial work has been done by Marian Tudosoiu to bring IPv6 firewall groups to the current implementation of firewall configuration scripts even before we g...
The night of living dead protocols: RIPv2
RIP's name seems to have anticipated its ultimate fate. It used to stand for Routing Information Protocol before newer and better protocols killed it. Still, mo...
Using the "policy route" and packet marking for custom QoS matches
There is only that much you can do in a QoS rules to describe the traffic you want it to match. There's DCP, source/destination, and protocol, and that's enough...
IP tunnels I have known and loved
Today we'll talk about the "classic" IP tunneling protocols. GRE is often seen as a one size fits all solution when it comes to classic IP tunneling protocols, ...
