Internet of the future: from freedom to centralization and back
This article opens a series of materials dedicated to the problems of the modern internet, its centralization, and possible solutions. The introductory article reveals…
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Implementation of your own NGFW on your own infrastructure: how we ate the cactus and what came of it
If just a couple of years ago we asked an IT or IS specialist which NGFW is better to choose, everyone would unanimously recommend products from foreign vendors.
Example of the simplest distributed backbone network
Good day to the community and as they say "congratulations on the start" :)
From "everything broke" to "you saved me": how a duty administrator's day goes in a cloud provider
Good afternoon, colleague or random reader. My name is Pavel, I am a duty system administrator at Nubes. My colleagues mistakenly sent me access to tekkix, and I, without…
Do you really need SD-WAN technology?
On December 17th, we will be live to talk about the capabilities of Cloud SD-WAN MWS. You will learn how to connect new offices and branches in a few hours, optimize…
Not a single break, but this is not certain. Damage to internet backbones at the end of 2024
In November and December 2024, the world faced a new threat to digital infrastructure — three underwater internet cable damages within a couple of weeks. These events…
Identifying DHCP attacks using Wireshark
In network traffic, you can find a lot of interesting things, the main thing is to know what to look for. With the Wireshark analyzer, you can find all sorts of anomalies…
Guide to Wi-Fi Standards and Speeds
As a provider of a Wi-Fi subscriber management solution that is independent of the radio communication standard, we decided to share with tekkix readers a small guide.…
Another MultiWan on Mikrotik ROS7 with Load Balancing and QOS. Part 1
Hello, tekkix! I want to share my implementation, vision of MultiWan on Mikrotik equipment.
Monitoring EVPN Fabric and BGP. Part 2
Hello, tekkix! My name is Elena Sakhno, I am a senior network engineer in the network services group of the network technologies department at Ozon.
"Room of Dirt" RTC-Service: how we scraped and repaired expensive network equipment
Many say that working as an engineer is a "clean job". You sit in a room with electronics, with hardware - no problems, and no dirt. According to the experience of the…
Network Equipment Configuration Management Eltex | Oxidized
Every system/network administrator sooner or later faces a situation: someone edited the config, but it is not very clear who and when. There were no differential backups,…
Firefox: 20 years of fighting for a free internet and market share. The successes and failures of the browser
Hello, tekkix! This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. Twenty years ago, in November 2004, the first release of the Firefox browser was launched. The novelty quickly…
Shadowsocks,OpenVPN,Vmess, VLESS: which protocol will win in the era of digital censorship?
In the modern internet, many face the question of how to bypass blocks and protect personal data. And, while VPN applications are well-known, solutions like Shadowsocks,…
Linux On A Stick
This article was born as a result of combining ideas from a laboratory work in preparation for the CCNA exam by Cisco, and the Network Protocols in Linux course, which…
How I created a device that can remotely emulate a mouse and keyboard on stm32
Hello everyone, I recently started studying the USB protocol on the STM32F103C8, namely HID devices. I am a person who does not really like theory, but loves to learn…
Hitchhiking through Multiplayer. Part 4: Authoritarianism and Topologies
This is the fourth article in the guide to developing multiplayer games, where I try to consistently and in one place gather the knowledge that will be required for conscious…
How I taught Discord voice chat to work through a proxy using system call interception and DLL Hijacking
I, like many others, use Discord and Chinese proxy clients, but unfortunately, Discord voice chat does not support working through a proxy. Because of this, I constantly…
