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Building India’s Own Production-Grade Router & Firewall Platform
Mechanical Engineer by qualification with a strong passion for technology and networking. CCIE Routing & Switching and Security (#22239, since 2008). Former Cisco TAC, HP, and Wipro. Currently focused on building free, impactful tools for India. Ongoing projects include Namohos.com, Anantaos.com, and Freefreecv.com.
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Lately, I have been working on a project that has quietly grown into something far bigger than I initially imagined—Namoh Router, a cloud-grade virtual router and firewall built with a fresh perspective. This idea did not come from a boardroom, an investment pitch, or a market analysis report. It came from life, from my personal journey, from many years of working in networking, from the way I mentor students, and from the way I see India’s engineering talent moving toward the global cloud era.
This blog is both a story and a blueprint. A story of how Namoh Router began. A blueprint of where it is headed.
Sometimes our engineering instincts are born not in classrooms, but in childhood curiosity. Mine started the day I opened up our family VCR. That device never worked again, but something began working inside me—an uncontrollable urge to break things, understand them, rebuild them, and re-imagine them.
During engineering college, I realised that what they called “engineering” was mostly theory. My kind of engineering was different. It was hands-on, messy, experimental, and driven by obsession. It was R&D in its rawest form. The classroom never matched the energy of building, testing, breaking, and rebuilding. That disconnect stayed with me for years.
Life, however, had other plans. Before I turned 18, I suffered from severe kidney complications and bone tuberculosis. I spent almost one and a half years bedridden. The treatment for MDR TB damaged my kidneys further, and the years that followed were a slow struggle with health and memory. I carried that burden until the age of 47, when my kidneys completely failed and I finally underwent a transplant in July 2025.
A new life began after that—literally.
With my regained energy, I returned to what I loved: building. While creating my own lab on an online pod, I needed a reliable, production-grade firewall and router. Something that could handle 1 Gbps throughput, offered clean UI/UX, and was cost-effective. Most solutions in the market fell into two categories:
Too expensive for students, labs, startups, and small setups
Too complex for beginners, even though I personally could handle it (I have 2 CCIEs for 17 years)
Platforms like pfSense, AWS Security Groups, and DigitalOcean Firewalls provided ideas but not a complete solution. Cloud firewalls were simple but lacked depth. Traditional open-source routers were powerful but overwhelming.
I realised there was a gap.
India needs a firewall that students can learn from.
Startups need a router they can afford.
Cloud engineers need something that matches modern cloud workflows.
Labs need something fast, lightweight, and scalable.
That was the origin of Namoh Router—a combination of cloud simplicity, pfSense-grade depth, and a modern Indian engineering mindset.
By the time of writing this blog, our Stage-1 Router is already in production within our own environment. Early performance metrics are promising, and the feedback loop is active.
The next five phases will transform Namoh Router into a world-class platform.
Modern networking doesn’t need 40 tabs and 200 options. It needs defaults that work, and controls that make sense.
Namoh Router cleans up the clutter and offers:
modern UI
beginner-friendly workflows
deep options only when needed
Instead of replicating traditional router models, the system aligns with cloud-native design:
API-driven
metadata-aware
declarative policies
dynamic rules
By adopting optimized nftables, kernel enhancements, and asynchronous processing, the system is designed to reach:
1 Gbps on commodity VMs
excellent tunnel performance
low overhead processing
Networking education in India often suffers from lack of hands-on tools. Namoh Router aims to fix that:
visual flow graphs
inline explanations
templates for labs
campus-friendly deployment
We have structured upcoming development into five strategic phases. Each phase includes features grouped by complexity.
| Phase | Complexity Level | Feature Set |
| Phase 1 | Low–Medium | WireGuard, basic IPSec (IKEv2), GRE, OpenVPN, improved NAT, modern UI |
| Phase 2 | Medium | Nebula Mesh VPN, advanced IPSec (VTI), VLAN support, DNS filtering, flow logs |
| Phase 3 | Medium–High | Zero-Trust firewall, identity-based policies, service graph, policy versioning |
| Phase 4 | High | Distributed firewall mode, multi-region controller, self-healing tunnels |
| Phase 5 | Very High | Blockchain-based VPN framework, AI-driven rule engine, anomaly detection and auto-hardening |
Our current stage in production already supports basic routing and firewalling. Phase 1 will strengthen it with essential VPN and tunneling features.
WireGuard (multi-peer, high-performance)
OpenVPN (site-to-site and client-based)
Basic IPSec (IKEv2) support
GRE tunnels for compatibility with legacy systems
NAT Enhancements
One-to-one NAT
Port forwarding
Hairpin NAT
Modern UI/UX
intuitive dashboard
rule grouping
real-time notifications
Bring the router to a level where it can replace low to mid-tier virtual routers used in labs and small businesses.
Phase 2 adds features suitable for distributed teams, modern developers, and hybrid network environments.
Nebula Mesh VPN support
IPSec VTI Mode for dynamic routing
VLAN and Trunking Support
Static and Dynamic DNS filtering
Traffic Flow Logs with insights
Users can apply rule templates like:
Web Server Template
DB Tier Template
Kubernetes Node Template
Enhance compatibility, improve visibility, and enable large-lab and remote-access use cases.
After establishing strong connectivity and stability, Phase 3 shifts Namoh Router into modern cloud and zero-trust territory.
Rules based on:
device identity
workload identity
cryptographic certificates
IP addresses become optional rather than mandatory.
Grant selective application access across tunnels.
A live graph showing:
traffic
blocked flows
latency
tunnel states
rollback
compare revisions
audit trail
Bring enterprise-grade security models to Indian labs, SMBs, and students in a simplified, modern interface.
This phase expands Namoh Router beyond a single-instance architecture.
Lightweight agents deployed across:
cloud regions
offices
data centers
All controlled by a unified management plane.
auto-detect tunnel degradation
switch to backup paths
key rotation
multi-path support
push configurations
global policy distribution
Support large enterprises and multi-region startups with cloud-native routing and security.
The final phase focuses on next-level innovation—where Namoh Router becomes an autonomous, intelligent, and secure cloud networking platform.
detect redundant rules
suggest optimizations
highlight anomalies
recommend hardening steps
pattern recognition
ML-based anomaly detection
automated incident response guidance
decentralized trust
tamper-resistant audit
multi-node federation
Firewall rules automatically adapt based on:
server load
traffic patterns
risk levels
Position Namoh Router as a global innovator capable of competing with next-generation cloud firewall platforms.
India is rapidly becoming a cloud-first and network-first engineering nation. With lakhs of engineering graduates entering the IT workforce every year, we need tools that:
teach networking hands-on
are affordable
are India-built and India-optimised
prepare students for cloud careers
empower startups who cannot spend lakhs on proprietary firewalls
Namoh Router is designed with all these objectives in mind.
learn routing
learn tunneling
learn firewalling
build mini-labs
understand packet flows visually
secure workloads
low cost
high throughput
cloud-friendly workflows
distributed firewall model
rule anomaly detection
policy versioning
zero-trust enforcement
