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# dn42 Show and Tell
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Let us know the most creative, best, strangest, complex, wierd or just plain fun setups that you've created with dn42.
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Document your mad setups in the categories below, with links to a full write up, photos and screenshots welcome.
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## Things peered into dn42
- Fun devices peered into dn42,
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- Or fun ways to connect them
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- The thing must be running BGP and connected into dn42 as a full dynamic peer
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*Examples*:
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- Fun with virtualisation
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- peer into dn42 from your browser
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- Emulate some old bgp capable hardware
- Fun with hardware
- obsolete routers you still have in your garage/loft/basement
- shiny new hardware that you need to 'test' for work
- Fun with networks
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- fast networks (100G+), slow networks (UART), strange networks (IP over dns/usb/etc)
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- Wired: Token Ring/X.25/ATM/ISDN etc (encapsulation allowed, but bonus points for real physical networks)
- Wireless: dn42 via microwave/laser/satellite
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*... your stuff goes here*
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## Things attached to dn42
- The thing must be pingable from dn42
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- Bonus points if you can access the wiki from it
- Double bonus, the device was able to add or edit its own entry on this page
- Static routing, protocol encapsulation and virtualisation allowed
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*Examples*:
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- Fun with virtualisation
- connect using an obscure or obsolete operating system
- Fun with hardware
- Microprocessors (ESP32, Arduino, Pico etc) or FPGAs
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- Connect your phone, watch, tv, clock, washing machine etc
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*... your stuff goes here*
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* Retro dn42 access service by Burble
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- burble.dn42 provides a [dn42 dialup service ](https://dn42.burble.com/retro/ ) using real modems over VOIP, together with a [modem emulator ](https://dn42.burble.com/retro/fake/ ) to ease attaching retro computers or virtual machines into dn42
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- 04dco: At a maximum theoretical speed of a whopping 28.8 Kbps, web browsing and IRC chatting were done. My site still loads faster than everyone else's :)
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- grawity: Lacking a physical modem, configured VirtualBox to attach the Windows 98 serial port to a TCP modem emulator at dialup.burble.dn42. Listening to a shoutcast stream of local FM radio station.
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- jlu5: a Windows Server running BGP and receiving dn42 routes! ([Full writeup here ](https://jlu5.com/blog/bgp-dn42-windows-server ))

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## Things that use dn42
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- Fun stuff that you've done with dn42
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*Examples*:
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- Fun with hardware
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- home automation or IoT over dn42
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- Fun with networking
- Unique or obscure network and routing protocols
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*... your stuff goes here*
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* Hardware Random Number Generator by Kioubit
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- A raspberry pi was connected to a random number source and random bytes offered via dn42. The raspberry pi is running a custom server to take requests via a simple HTTPS API and interface with the device.
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## Achievements
Add what you did in/for dn42, yet:
| Who | #peerings | Bandwidth | DNS | Fileserver | Network service | Website |
|:------- |:--------- |:--------- |:--- |:---------- |:--------------- |:--------- |
| allo | 7 | 1 GBit/s | auth. only | no | no | yes |
| stv0g | 8 | 1 GBit/s | no | no | no | [yes ](https://dev.0l.dn42 ) |
| fsteinel| 2 | 2 MBit/s | auth. only | no | no | [yes ](http://www.flonet.dn42 ) |
| haksrpd | 32| 3 gbps maximum approx. | auth. only | no | MPLS L3VPN, EVPN, DN42 Service Hosting, etc. | temporary unavailiable |