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MikroTik Routers
MikroTik routers running RouterOS v7 are our recommended way to connect vintage hardware to the T...
Welcome IRIXNet Members
Welcome to Nekotopia! "where IRIX is reachable again" Account Access for IRIXNet Members IRIXNe...
Cymru BOGONs and BGP Blackholes
The AWS VPC and IP Transit have some solid protection on the routing edge. It's unlikely we will ...
Torus Controls
For a retro computing VPN mesh, the biggest risks come from untrusted nodes, weak endpoints, and ...
Self-Service Moderation
User Dashboard Features Moderation status banner shows strikes and suspension info Users see the...
Private Intranet
The Torus runs over your existing network using encrypted tunnels. All members could connect usin...
Media
The modern internet is full of media in the form of text, images, videos, music, and way more tha...
Supported Protocols
The Nekotopia mesh operates on WireGuard, a modern Layer 3 VPN transporting IPv4 and IPv6. For me...
Our Community
Nekotopia was built by and is operated for people who want to connect, share, and explore retro c...
Overview
Nekotopia operates monitoring infrastructure to ensure service reliability, performance optimisat...
Dashboards
Public Access Anonymous read-only access is enabled for the public status dashboard, allowing use...
Alternative Hardware
While we recommend MikroTik routers, several other brands support WireGuard. These options haven'...
Supported Platforms
WireGuard is supported on virtually every modern platform. Here's what you can use to connect to ...
Ethernet over IP (Proprietary - not planned yet)
EoIP is a MikroTik-proprietary tunnelling protocol that encapsulates Ethernet frames directly ins...
L2TPv3 over IPSec (Planned Q2 2026)
Unlike earlier versions of L2TP, L2TPv3 is purpose-built for point-to-point Layer 2 transport bet...
Bump in the wire
Clearly, offering remote access to these old systems is problematic from a security perspective. ...
VXLAN over Wireguard
WireGuard establishes secure IP connectivity between sites. We could add a Layer 2 encapsulation ...
Netware Services
This is not a fully formed view, argument, or document, but more of a mind dump of things we coul...
ZTNA
Zero Trust Network Architecture We are trying to build trust, of course. Why would you put your p...
fairgames.io - "The Fair Gaming WAN"
In 2019, as part of my MSc Thesis (final year project) I built a layer-2 gaming LAN over tunnels ...