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#mikrotik Articles

Thu 16 April 2026
Networking

Running Your Own AS: Direct Hetzner Peering, a Fourth Edge, and Bringing the Home LAN into the Fabric

Part 4 of the AS201379 journey: adding a fourth FreeBSD edge router at iFog with FogIXP peering, establishing direct BGP sessions with Hetzner, bringing the home network into the AS via an iBGP-speaking MikroTik, and a little traffic engineering to steer Deutsche Telekom traffic over Vultr.