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EVPN/VxLAN Interop – IPv4/IPv6 – MikroTik & IP Infusion
Working with MikroTik and IP Infusion’s OcNOS to interop EVPN/VxLAN has been on my wish list for a long time. Both solutions are a great cost-effective alternative to mainstream vendors – both...
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MikroTik ROSv7 Cheat Sheets – OSPFv2/v3 standard area LSA propagation.
When learning how to use OSPF with MikroTik, it can sometimes be difficult to understand how the different LSA types flow between areas.In MikroTik’s OSPF documentation they briefly cover the LSA for...
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MikroTik ROSv7 cheat sheets – OSPFv2/v3 LSAs
When troubleshooting OSPF in MikroTik, it’s often helpful to look at the LSAs to determine the root cause of an issue. However, MikroTik’s LSA names don’t always match up to the language used in RFCs...
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MikroTik ROS 7.14beta8 released
MikroTik Routers and Wireless – SoftwareRouterOS continues to mature as we move through the versions in the teens.When we transitioned between ROSv5 and ROSv6 in the early 2010s, it was right around...
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WISP/FISP Design: Switch Centric (SWC) Topology
IP ArchiTechs switch centric core being built in the Denver DC. Dec 2018 Overview This is an article i’ve wanted to write for a long time. In the last decade, the work that we have done at...
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IP Infusion: EVPN-MPLS first look on GA 6.0
IP Infusion just released OcNOS version 6.0 and the release notes, as well as press release, show a focus on EVPN with an MPLS data plane. Don’t forget EVPN and VxLAN aren’t mutually exclusive, EVPN...
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Situational Awareness for Network Migrations
At IP Architechs we perform a lot of network migrations and it is no secret network migrations/ maintenance windows can be one of the most nerve-racking things for engineers, managers, and business...
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BGP Communities part 4: Active/Active datacenter
If you read part 2 of this series and came out wondering this is great but: How do I connect to the internet?Does this breakdown once I need to have connections?What else do I have to do to manage...
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BGP communities part 3: Customer BGP Traffic Engineering communities
If you’ve ever been asked to prioritize one internet connection over another for any variety of reasons, cost, latency, SLA, etc… this is for you. Often I hear the same tactics to solve this problem:...
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MikroTik – ROSv7 – VPLS over IPv6 MPLS with LDPv6
The great migration IPv6 adoption has really picked up in the last 12 months and MikroTik RouterOSv7 development is no exception. Dual stack networks are still the most common and easiest to initially...
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WEBINAR: ISP Design – Separation of Network Functions
Recently, we recorded a webinar to explain a design concept frequently used by iparchitechs.com to build and migrate WISP, FISP and Telco networks – separation of network functions. It centers around...
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MikroTik – RouterOS v7 – BGP performance testing for full tables
MikroTik has come a long way since the first release of RouterOS v7 beta. One of the long-awaited features is improved BGP performance and the ability to leverage multiple CPU cores. Testing BGP...
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Networking Field Day: Service Provider – Arista VPLS
During the first networking field day: service provider one of the big topics was EVPN versus VPLS. Arista has put a lot of work into their EVPN deployment and this has give then a ton of success in...
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App delivery for an improved pizza experience
It’s been a while since we started work on one of our newest projects. We have been trying to solve a problem in app location. It all came from the notion that Little Caesars know where my pizza is,...
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WEBINAR: Deploying IPv6 for WISPs and FISPs.
A few weeks ago, we recorded a webinar on deploying IPv6 for WISPs and FISPs. As IPv6 adoption continues to climb, developing an IPv6 strategy for design, deployment and system integration is an...
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BGP communities for traffic steering – part 2: State Management across Data...
This post has been a while in the making and follows up on an article about BGP communities that can be found here. Then we followed it up with some more discussion about FW design and place, or lack...
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Interop IP infusion and MikroTik: part 2 – VPLS
VPLS is a pretty common technology in ISPs to either sell layer 2 services or backhaul traffic to a centralized aggregation point to conserve IPv4 space; check out more on that here. How can I take...
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Interop LDP and Segment Routing with IP infusion and MikroTik
Introduction During networking field day service provider 1 there was a ton of talk about segment routing (SR) and ethernet virtual private networks (EVPN). One of the biggest questions was “how do we...
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Network Modeling: Automating Mikrotik RouterOS CHR Containerlab images
Introduction In a previous post, we talked about using Containerlab and ZeroTier to provide remote access to a lab instance. One of the things that was glossed over was creating the Containerlab...
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MikroTik CHR – Breaking the 100G barrier
Introduction The world is strange today. Despite the Covid-19 crisis all over the world, most ISPs are fighting a battle to deliver more bandwidth on a daily basis. Work from homeOnline...
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