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Testing Your Connection

Joining the community

Torus Echo the Connectivity Test Service Once you have configured your VPN connection, you can v...

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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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Connecting to the Torus

How does it work?

Connection MethodsThere are two ways to connect to the Torus network: using a dedicated edge rout...

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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...

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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...

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Bump in the wire

Security

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

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VXLAN over Wireguard

Wide Area 'LANs'

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

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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 ...

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Forum

Platform Enhancements

For the forum, I was genuinely considering excluding this from the overall platform. There is a p...

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Gallery

Media and Gallery

If you join the community, you'll be granted an account that lets you post pictures of your stuff...

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Data Usage and Retention

Monitoring, Log Collection and Retention

Operational Purposes Collected telemetry data is used exclusively for: Service Reliability Rea...

Updated 2 months ago by Admin

Torus Service Level

Service Level Objectives

Overview The Torus service provides secure, high-performance WireGuard connectivity using AWS EC2...

Updated 2 months ago by Admin