Computer Networking
How do two computers actually talk to each other? Packets, switches, IP addresses, DNS — the stuff under everything.
What we do
Curiosity, applied to the Internet.
RouteHack is about the technology that usually stays invisible: the cables, protocols, servers and agreements that move your messages around the planet in milliseconds. Here’s what that means in practice — explained so that someone who has never opened a terminal can follow along.
Internet Infrastructure
The Internet is a network of networks. Routing, IPv6, BGP and ASNs — how the whole thing holds together.
Linux & Servers
Install it, break it, fix it. Run real services on real machines and learn to keep them alive.
Cybersecurity (Defense)
Think like an attacker, act like a defender. Hardening, threat awareness and safe lab experiments.
Building Projects
Websites, tools, network labs, open source — pick something real and ship it with other people.
Computer Networking
We start from zero: what happens when you open a website, how your laptop gets an IP address, what a router actually routes. Then we go hands-on — cabling small lab networks, configuring switches, capturing real traffic with tools like Wireshark and learning to read it.
Internet Infrastructure
Ever wondered who "owns" a piece of the Internet? We explore how autonomous systems (ASNs) announce routes with BGP, why IPv6 matters and how peering works — and we try it out safely inside controlled lab environments before touching anything real.
Linux & Servers
From your first SSH login to running your own services: user management, systemd, firewalls, web servers, storage and updates. We practise on our own lab machines and virtual servers, where breaking things is allowed — and fixing them is the fun part.
Cybersecurity (Defense)
We focus on defensive security: how systems get compromised, how to harden them, and how to notice when something is wrong. Everything happens in isolated labs and CTF-style exercises — learning to defend means understanding attacks, responsibly and legally.
Building Projects
Knowledge sticks when you build something with it. Members team up on community websites, monitoring dashboards, small tools and network experiments — and we publish our work as open source so others can learn from it too.
How a topic becomes a session
- Someone asks a question — “why is my Wi-Fi slow?”, “what even is an IP address?”
- We dig up a short, hands-on way to explore it: a demo, a lab setup, a small challenge.
- We try it together at a meetup, break things, fix them, and write down what we learned.
- The notes become the starting point for the next newcomer. Knowledge compounds.
Sound like your kind of afternoon? Join RouteHack or see what we want to build.
Curious? That’s the only requirement.
Tell us you’re interested and we’ll reach out as soon as the first meetups are planned. No experience needed — bring a laptop if you have one, or just bring yourself.