When the new IT manager doesn't respect the 6500...

Finally got the EVPN/VxLAN interop testing I've been working on w/ MikroTik and IP Infusion written up into a blog article with full configs. stubarea51.net/2025/09/22/e...

Have you been exposed to an #IPv6 address at work? You *may* be entitled to compensation!

We didn't know BGP could be so much fun, but look at those faces! @stubarea51.bsky.social, @andylapteff.bsky.social, and Jeff Clark had a blast diving into BGP, and they just scratched the surface. This episode may turn into a series. New episode drops Wednesday morning. linktr.ee/artofneteng

#ArtofWAN #NetworkEngineering

Getting closer to #MikroTik RouterOS 7.20 stable! Glad to see the attention on BGP and getting more bugs getting fixed :)

I've been meaning to get my hands dirty with the #MikroTik EVPN implementation & created an interop lab with #IPInfusion OcNOS The OcNOS core acts as a BGP route reflector for both the IPv4 & EVPN AFIs which allows the MikroTik routers to create dynamic VTEPs using EVPN.

Will this ever be a place to talk enterprise tech?

BREAKING: #HPE & #Juniper hire Cracker Barrel marketing firm to handle new corporate branding

#MikroTik 7.20beta9 is released. Looks to be mainly bug fixes which means a release candidate is coming soon! *) chr - improved virtio_net performance; 👀

Every 60 seconds when the "Monitor" Calamari is on call for NetOps

It's always #BGP and #DNS...

#MikroTik continues to expand BGP route filtering capabilities. New in 7.20.x, the input.accept-nlri command allows routes learned to be filtered before they enter memory. Useful if you're taking in a large number of routes and don't need all or most of them.

#MikroTik 7.20beta8 is out! *) bgp - improved logging; 👀

This post has been a long time in the making... I consistently get the question about my thoughts about VMware alternatives. Here's my response: thectoadvisor.com/blog/2025/08...

IPv4 bros on their 5G phones posting "NOBODY USES IPV6!!!"

"Pop quiz, hotshot." --Dennis Hopper as Howard Payne, Speed (1994) I built a quiz app in Go. It's flexible that any questions could be compiled into it, but right now it's mostly AI generated questions about #IPv6. quiz.ipv6.army

rtr.anakin-01.jedi.council has joined vrrp group 66 but is NOT granted the role of master

New "Forti" product for 2026?

#Spaceballs the feature license...

Network Engineering in a nutshell...

Introducing #IPv6 Support for AWS Regions and Splunk Offerings www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/i...

network engineers: i keep my technology locked in a cage so it can’t escape

Big news for #MikroTik operators that need to create filters for BGP and other protocols!!! (Thanks to @BergNetwork (x) for pointing it out!) Starting in v7.20beta6, they have released a routing-filter wizard to make it easier to create routing filters. Attached are examples😎

In the last few weeks, #MikroTik has expanded their documentation on EVPN. It's encouraging to see they are testing the ROSv7 implementation against #Arista EOS to verify interoperability.

#MikroTik ROS 7.19.3 is released. *) bridge - allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled This is great to see because it should allow #IPv6 routers to act as a delegating router when using relay to a centralized DHCPv6-PD server without sacrificing performance.

Finally converting my standard EVE-NG lab over to the 3fff::/20 IPv6 space (RFC 9637) So helpful to break apart /32s & mock-up ISP networks instead of "cheating" with 2001:db8::/32 In this example... 3fff:994a::/32 is used for the ISP being modeled 3fff:da7a::/32 is used for the transit ASN

Interesting and useful addition to /ip/services in #MikroTik Now you can view services other than management protocols (SSH/Winbox/etc) like BFD. Not only can you see the ports BFD is listening on, but you can also see the IPv4 and IPv6 connections to that port. 😎

The old days, when all you needed was a console cable and a 30-pound laptop...

In addition to EVPN being added in #MikroTik ROS 7.20, there are a couple other notable additions to BGP that quietly slipped into the release. - BGP instances - BGP advertise IPv4 prefix with IPv6 nexthop (RFC5549,RFC8950) help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/...

#MikroTik recently migrated forum.mikrotik.com to a new platform based on discourse to replace the older phpbb software. I was resistant to it at first even though I love dark mode, but it's growing on me :) What's your opinion on the new forums?

#MikroTik 7.20beta4 is out. Lots of work on EVPN. mikrotik.com/download

A great overview of what's new in #MikroTik RouterOS 7.19 tiktube.com/w/xvMuLqJLot...

Current prefix range distribution for IPv6 (21-May-2025)

👀 help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/...

I see 225739 IPv6 prefixes. This is 151 more prefixes than 6 hours ago and 1448 more than a week ago. 46.03% of prefixes are /48.

Interesting discussion on how to enable hardware offload of a full IPv4 table on a MikroTik CCR2216 even though the ASIC doesn't technically have enough space. For simpler 100G edge router use cases, it's hard to beat a $2k peering router w/ an ASIC forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.ph...

"That is so cool!" Facts. 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdw1426c-i8&

Did you know there is a #mikrotik Lemmy instance? https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]

Let's keep exploring our latest innovation: the ROSE Data server. This time - a deeper dive with the one and only Brett from RaidOwl! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGAwubEU92A

Massive power outage in Chile knocks out nearly all Internet service for the country beginning at 18:16 UTC (3:16pm local). #apagon

#MikroTik RouterOS 7.18 released as stable today. mikrotik.com/download/cha...

#MikroTik is getting into the compute/storage game by combining a router/l3switch w/ storage/container capabilities. With the progress they've made in VxLAN & the upcoming work on EVPN, this could be a great platform to converge networking & storage. What do you think? youtu.be/g1wpIIfYpZA?...

EVPN Support coming for #MikroTik!!! Now that MikroTik has publicly committed to EVPN, SR-MPLS won't be far behind along with hw-offload of VPLS & L2VPN Imagine a ~$400ish box new w/ multiple 10G ports that runs dual stack BGP, IS-IS, EVPN, VxLAN & LDP/SR MPLS forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.ph...

And just like that: TikTok is coming back... x.com/TikTokPolicy...

Tiktok outside of the US is running normal.

🚨 Tiktok went offline in the US last night at 03:30 UTC (10:30pm ET) 🚨 Graphic based on @kentik.bsky.social aggregate traffic stats. #tiktokban