Observed arrival · 2026-10-31
v4direct.org’s 1 MB peering offer
A self-mocking network-operator parody offers dial-up transit, imaginary virtual machines, and “blazing slow IPv4” for hobbynets.
- For
- Hobbynets and readers of network-engineering satire
- Worth noticing
- The page’s “Dial Up Transit” joke stacks GRE, WireGuard, L2TPv3, and another WireGuard, then gives the MTU as 412.
Field notes
The homepage is organized like a small network operator’s service catalog, with sections for tunnels, address space, virtual machines, BGP, DDoS protection, PoPs, and peering. Its details are explicitly self-deprecating: the listed transit nests four tunneling layers at MTU 412, while the claimed full-table BGP delivery arrives as a PDF by email each Monday. The page also marks its Looking Glass as broken and its dashboard as “500”; the extract does not verify whether any underlying service is live.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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