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 Working with freeRouter inside VM is interesting but working and interact with the outside world is way more exciting.exciting !

Article objective

In this article we'll explain how to integrate freeRouter in an existing local area network (my home network) and how to inherit from IPv4 DHCP and IPv6 SLAAC. Though this simple example is consumer/end user oriented, if you transpose it to a Internet Service provider environment you can easily imagine how to build a highly BGP route Reflector client, sophisticated rouse server, ROA/RPKI validator or even a BGP BMP server ... (and the list of features set is huge) For example, in one one my project I'm using freeRouter as a BGP route reflector inside a k8s cluster running calico network plugin.

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