Tag: routing

New ASBR with MikroTik

Written by Dominik Pantůček on 2024-07-04

It took ages, however the replacement of our autonomous system border router (ASBR) is done. In addition we managed to converge our backbone L2 and L3 equipment and finally get a rid of two single points of failure (SPOF) in sequence.

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Linux routing API? No. ABI? Maybe - why?

Written by Dominik Joe Pantůček on 2016-03-22

I would like - if I may - to take you on a strange journey.

As a part of developing a simple UDP-based networking application for Linux where the client may communicate with the server over multiple physical network connections, we needed to programatically setup source-based routing. It seemed like a really simple task. A simple task which turned into a roller coaster ride from the heights of pure amusement to the very depths of hell itself.

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