> Researching, I believe I noticed 44.137.1.80/28 appear, and that you're
> the coordinator.
> Otherwise, there's already a route existing in the portal.
I know, I will try to contact him to see if he has problems.
(I guess he has only made a tunnel to amprgw. I cannot ping him from a Dutch AMPRnet IP)
Some people apply for a subnet on IPIP and then find that it is not as easy as they
would have guessed to get it working correctly. Probably they expected it would be a
matter of configuring an IP tunnel in their router. We know there is a little more to it.
Rob
> Well, what I wrote does this:
> 68.100.10.100 44.62.5.1 5678 MikroTik 6.36.1 (stable) MikroTik 5RRB-VMWG RB750Gr3 UCSD
> 84.106.126.184 44.137.1.92 5678 MikroTik 6.38.5 (stable) MikroTik V2P4-7CQK RB2011UiAS-2HnD ucsd-gw
> As far as MikroTik router gateways go, that's pretty much all there is
> to be learned from the MNDP broadcasts.
Believe it or not, that already reveals 1 issue and one possible issue...
That second entry has an unregistered address as the router address, and it is likely only having a
single tunnel towards ucsd instead of a full mesh.
Rob
> I forgot: the firmware version, too.
And the router IP address. That is interesting information as it allows us to check
if the gateway is up and actually functioning. The receiving of these MNDP packets in
fact is some indication of that.
Of course the number of gateways using MikroTik routers is low, but maybe when similar
packets were sent by ampr-ripd there would be info from a lot of gateways.
I thought it might be useful to have some status overview and maybe version information.
It can help answer basic questions like "how many of the registered gateways are
actually operational".
Of course it has to be decided if it is worth the extra traffic and the trouble of
writing the software.
About gathering service information: there is some demand for an overview of services
available on AMPRnet. People have suggested installing a search engine, and it has been
done in some places, but IMHO a search engine, while useful, is not really the answer.
When you do not know what to search for, a search engine has to be very clever to give
useful results for queries like "show me an interesting service to try today".
What I am looking for is more like a website that shows a table of services, one line
per service and with a clickable link that expands one item into more detail, describing
interesting services (not limited to websites!) on AMPRnet. Things that draw your
attention and that you may want to try.
The detail would include things like "how to get an account" (when relevant) etc.
It could be constructed in a similar way to the neighbor table maintained by MNDP,
except it would not be UDP broadcasts but e.g. some HTTP POST. When you have a service
that is available on AMPRnet, you would do an automated daily POST of a small file
describing the service (would be easy to install as a cron job using curl or wget)
to the server, and the webpage shows all services that have recently been (re-)posted.
The result would be similar to the Wiki page http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Services ,
but with the advantage that services that have become unavailable will disappear from
the list automatically (assuming that the posting of the info is done from the system
providing the service and stops at the same time).
The beauty of a network of course is that anyone can make this and put it online.
It does not have to run on amprgw or other parts of the network infrastructure,
it can just be an experiment running on a Raspberry Pi at someone's home.
When we have something like that, it is easier to get people going after they have
connected to the network, and keeping them interested in exploring new things on the
network. Maybe suitable software already exists, otherwise it should be quite easy
to do on a LAMP server or similar.
Rob
Hi
Someone know if there is somewhere on the net something that (web page) can view PCAP file ?
If not is there any Software that doesn't need to be installed (unlike WireShark) for PC ?
Thanks for Any info
Ronen - 4Z4ZQ
> there have only been 8 hosts sending broadcast destination packets
Maybe some have turned this off (easy to do) because they are considered errors now.
> I don't know if it would be worth the effort to decode them into a text
> file since they are already available for download.
> What information is in them that might be of general interest?
Well, as also suggested by Lynwood, these packets (and others) can be used
to maintain a table of software in use, and can be helpful when there is some
problem that appears to affect part of the gateways, but it is not immediately
clear what they have in common.
Rob
The following message is being queued for email delivery to
everyone registered on the portal as operating a gateway.
- Brian
--------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Brian Kantor <Brian(a)UCSD.Edu>
To: AMPRNet Gateway Operators:;
Subject: AMPRNet - Important notice regarding your gateway system
Hello. You are receiving this email because you are registered with
portal.ampr.org as operating an IPIP encapsulating gateway, and there
are changes coming that will affect the operation of your gateway.
We are replacing the equipment at the UCSD Internet-AMPRNet gateway
with a newer, more capable device. In the process, the new equipment
will be assigned a NEW IP ADDRESS. You will have to make changes in
YOUR gateway configuration for your gateway to continue functioning.
The new equipment is already in service as amprgw.ucsd.edu and is on
IP address 169.228.34.84. This replaces the old equipment, known as
amprgw.sysnet.ucsd.edu, on IP address 169.228.66.251.
What you have to do to maintain the operability of your gateway:
1. You must change the outgoing destination address of your gateway
from 169.228.66.251 to 169.228.34.84. You may do this immediately;
the new equipment at UCSD is already operational.
2. You must allow packets from the new address, 169.228.34.84, into
your gateway router software configuration. If you are running with
a firewall, you must open a new path through it to your equipment.
Packets (RIP44 transmissions) are already being sent to you from
this address.
3. You must continue to accept packets from the old address,
169.228.66.251, for a period of a few weeks as the changeover is being
made. After a few weeks, packets will stop coming from that address
and you may remove permission for them to enter your firewall, if you
have one.
These are simple changes, involving editing a few configuration
parameters, but because there are so many different types of gateway in
operation on AMPRNet, how to make these changes cannot be detailed here.
You may find more information regarding your particular configuration
on https://wiki.ampr.org/ or on the 44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu discussion
mailing list, which you should join if you are not already a subscriber.
Best wishes and 73,
- Brian
Hello everyone,
Due to an cut instead of copy /paste error, there was a wrong tunnel
interface index detection (it always got the last interface in the system).
So here the a correted version of ampr-ripd (2.1.1) with the fix.
Changelog:
- Fixed a tunnel interface detection error
- No functional changes
Download:
http://www.yo2loj.ro/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-2.1.1.tgzhttp://yo2tm.ampr.org/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-2.1.1.tgz
Have fun,
Marius, YO2LOJ
As regards preparing a jnos system:
http://kf8kk.com/packet/jnos-linux/linux-jnos-setup-1.htm
gives a 404
What port will the new gateway ip nee? Still 520 udp?
Thanks,
jerome - ve7ass
> On May 28, 2017, at 20:56, Brian Kantor <Brian(a)UCSD.Edu> wrote:
>
> Hello. You are receiving this email because you are registered with
> portal.ampr.org as operating an IPIP encapsulating gateway, and there
> are changes coming that will affect the operation of your gateway.
>
> We are replacing the equipment at the UCSD Internet-AMPRNet gateway
> with a newer, more capable device. In the process, the new equipment
> will be assigned a NEW IP ADDRESS. You will have to make changes in
> YOUR gateway configuration for your gateway to continue functioning.
>
> The new equipment is already in service as amprgw.ucsd.edu and is on
> IP address 169.228.34.84. This replaces the old equipment, known as
> amprgw.sysnet.ucsd.edu, on IP address 169.228.66.251.
>
> What you have to do to maintain the operability of your gateway:
>
> 1. You must change the outgoing destination address of your gateway
> from 169.228.66.251 to 169.228.34.84. You may do this immediately;
> the new equipment at UCSD is already operational.
>
> 2. You must allow packets from the new address, 169.228.34.84, into
> your gateway router software configuration. If you are running with
> a firewall, you must open a new path through it to your equipment.
> Packets (RIP44 transmissions) are already being sent to you from
> this address.
>
> 3. You must continue to accept packets from the old address,
> 169.228.66.251, for a period of a few weeks as the changeover is being
> made. After a few weeks, packets will stop coming from that address
> and you may remove permission for them to enter your firewall, if you
> have one.
>
> These are simple changes, involving editing a few configuration
> parameters, but because there are so many different types of gateway in
> operation on AMPRNet, how to make these changes cannot be detailed here.
> You may find more information regarding your particular configuration
> on https://wiki.ampr.org/ or on the 44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu discussion
> mailing list, which you should join if you are not already a subscriber.
>
> Best wishes and 73,
> - Brian
> .
Hello everyone,
I released a new version of ampr-ripd (2.1) with fixes and additions.
Changelog:
- Fixed a segfault when using the -F option
- Added the possibility to use interface names for the -g option
- Interface used for raw RIP forwarding restarts on interface error
Download:
http://www.yo2loj.ro/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-2.1.tgzhttp://yo2tm.ampr.org/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-2.1.tgz
Have fun,
Marius, YO2LOJ