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MikroTik Routers

Joining the community Supported Hosting Equipment

MikroTik routers running RouterOS v7 are our recommended way to connect vintage hardware to the T...

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Welcome IRIXNet Members

IRIXNet Membership

Welcome to Nekotopia! "where IRIX is reachable again" Account Access for IRIXNet Members IRIXNe...

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Cymru BOGONs and BGP Blackholes

System Protection

The AWS VPC and IP Transit have some solid protection on the routing edge. It's unlikely we will ...

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Torus Controls

Is it safe?

For a retro computing VPN mesh, the biggest risks come from untrusted nodes, weak endpoints, and ...

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Self-Service Moderation

Abuse and Moderation

User Dashboard Features Moderation status banner shows strikes and suspension info Users see the...

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Private Intranet

Virtual Colocation

The Torus runs over your existing network using encrypted tunnels. All members could connect usin...

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Media

Media and Gallery

The modern internet is full of media in the form of text, images, videos, music, and way more tha...

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Supported Protocols

Network Overview

The Nekotopia mesh operates on WireGuard, a modern Layer 3 VPN transporting IPv4 and IPv6. For me...

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Our Community

Who is this for?

Nekotopia was built by and is operated for people who want to connect, share, and explore retro c...

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Overview

Monitoring, Log Collection and Retention

Nekotopia operates monitoring infrastructure to ensure service reliability, performance optimisat...

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Dashboards

Monitoring, Log Collection and Retention

Public Access Anonymous read-only access is enabled for the public status dashboard, allowing use...

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Alternative Hardware

Joining the community Supported Hosting Equipment

While we recommend MikroTik routers, several other brands support WireGuard. These options haven'...

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Supported Platforms

Joining the community

WireGuard is supported on virtually every modern platform. Here's what you can use to connect to ...

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Ethernet over IP (Proprietary - not planned yet)

Wide Area 'LANs'

EoIP is a MikroTik-proprietary tunnelling protocol that encapsulates Ethernet frames directly ins...

Updated 3 months ago by Admin

L2TPv3 over IPSec (Planned Q2 2026)

Wide Area 'LANs'

Unlike earlier versions of L2TP, L2TPv3 is purpose-built for point-to-point Layer 2 transport bet...

Updated 3 months ago by Admin

Bump in the wire

Security

Clearly, offering remote access to these old systems is problematic from a security perspective. ...

Updated 3 months ago by Admin

VXLAN over Wireguard

Wide Area 'LANs'

WireGuard establishes secure IP connectivity between sites. We could add a Layer 2 encapsulation ...

Updated 3 months ago by Admin

Netware Services

Novell NetWare

This is not a fully formed view, argument, or document, but more of a mind dump of things we coul...

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ZTNA

Security

Zero Trust Network Architecture We are trying to build trust, of course. Why would you put your p...

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fairgames.io - "The Fair Gaming WAN"

Platform Enhancements

In 2019, as part of my MSc Thesis (final year project) I built a layer-2 gaming LAN over tunnels ...

Updated 3 months ago by Admin