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Ask HN: How to learn more about routers?
What's the easiest way to build a router from scratch??
- i_am_a_peasant 4y agoWhat exactly is it about a router that you want to learn? Network protocols? Ethernet/WiFi drivers? Actually designing the electronics and sitting with a gigahertz range oscilloscope to test the signal integrity of your optical transmitters? If it's just networking you want to learn, you can get quite far with just virtual machines. Build a distro like openwrt for x86, run a bunch of qemu instances, put them all in various bridge configurations, or maybe even play around with ovswitch. Sky's the limit.
- Exorust 4y agoMore about network protocols
- brudgers 4y agoThe simplest thing that might work is any old computer with an ethernet port and one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_distributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_di...
- mobilio 4y agoEvaluate OpenWRT source code.