
The Community Run eXpansive Network or CRXN has been a project of mine that started way back when in 2021 during the rather annoying lockdown period of the pandemic. The upside to this period was I had a lot of time to really work on my passion projects which had included IP routing and networking, the result of a lot of toying around with static routing, then dynamic routing with the reference implementation of babel, babeld
, and then finally arriving at the current day where we run everything with the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon or (BIRD for short ;)
). It’s been a journey of a lot of work over time to create a network that wasn’t just fun for myself but for many others. Amounting to something I use daily to get a lot of my work and communications done as well.
Major announcement
It’s therefore with great pleasure that I am announcing the interconnection of CRXN with dn42 - a project which is originally an idea proposed by Ty3r0x and which became spearheaded by him and Marek Küthe. I want to thank you two both for yhe time and effort put into this process, along with the whole dn42 team for making this inter-connect possible. You can read more about the intricacies on Marek Küthe’s blog post.
With such an experiment we are bound to have a symbiotic relationship between both projects - benefitting from each other’s networks!