Fun with the Dude

• Ben Grabau
• 2024-01-02
• Networking

Mikrotik make a network monitoring package for their routers called The Dude. While it’s mostly pretty powerful and flexible, I’ve found some ways to customize it to make it work better for me that you might find useful too.

Preserving IP space with scarce addresses

• Ben Grabau
• 2023-12-31
• Networking

We all know IPv4 addresses are becoming more scarce, We’ve been warned about it for decades, and yet still every router I touch is primarily configured for IPv4. When it comes to preserving IP space, we’ve had NAT and RFC1918 for decades, and more recently CGNAT with RFC 6598. I try to be as resourceful…