Hello,
Here are some news about NPR - New Packet Radio.
I have made a big update of the firmware. Check it here:
https://hackaday.io/project/164092-npr-new-packet-radio
The main evolution is a great improvement of the radio sensitivity. If
you have noticed lack of sensitivity, it will help, for sure!
In fact, I have switched to GFSK instead of GMSK, with double frequency
deviation compared to GMSK.
After studying it in details, we have concluded that the radio chip that
I use (SI4463) is quite bad at GMSK demodulation.
This evolution makes it (of course) not compatible with previous
version! You have to update all your modems at the same time.
The bit per hertz ratio decreases, and I managed it like this:
* for low symbol rates with bandwidth constraints, I remain in
existing constraints (100kHz for modulation 20, 200kHz for modulations
11 dans 21)
* for higher symbol rates, the SR is the same than before, and the
radio bandwidth is increased.
Check all new version of documentation, release notes, etc...
Other improvements:
* I now publish a firmware for the 144-148MHz band (you need adequate
radio modules of course).
* Frequency setting resolution is improved to 1kHz (instead of
previously 40kHz).
* RSSI is now displayed in "dBm"
The next step of development will be frequency shift and FDD (Frequency
Division Duplex) feature. The uplink and downlink frequency could be
different, and you will be able to install 2 modems at Master side (one
for RX the other for TX) plus a duplexer. The main goal is to be able to
locate a NPR Master (repeater) in places (towers) where shift repeaters
are already present.
Finaly, about the kits sale, a new world-wide sale will probably start
before end of october. I will keep you informed.
73,
Guillaume F4HDK
I have been watching and using the 44 address group since the great days of
packet in the 90s.
With work and other obligations,
somehow I missed the selling of portions of the 44 block.
IT WAS NOT ANYONE'S TO SELL.
It was setup for the Ham Community at large.
If I try and get a group together and sell a portion of 2 meters is that
right? To me it seems to be about what happened here.
Thanks Bryan for trying to let the group know what is being done with these
proceeds.
Yes ARRL had a notice. I also do not think the ARRL is the sole news
agency for all thing ham radio either.
Just my 2cents
Thomas KC5KCT
Cathryn,
I see your ping requests arriving at 169.228.34.84 no problem,
and they are being encapsulated at sent to 50.79.209.150, again,
no problem. Nothing is coming back from 50.79.209.150.
This suggests that something is filtering out protocol 4 (IPIP)
between 169.228.34.84 and 50.79.209.150.
A traceroute from 169.228.34.84 to 50.79.209.150 using ordinary
UDP works, completing after 18 hops. The last few hops in that
path look like this:
14 162.151.87.226 12.097 ms 12.315 ms 12.088 ms
15 162.151.79.134 12.735 ms 12.744 ms 12.773 ms
16 68.87.227.122 13.080 ms 12.983 ms 12.920 ms
17 * * *
18 50.79.209.150 37.676 ms 42.664 ms 33.084 ms
A traceroute from 169.228.34.84 to 50.79.209.150 using protocol 4
(IPIP) does not complete, and there are no responses beyond hop
15. The last few hops are:
12 68.86.84.150 11.117 ms 12.601 ms 12.734 ms
13 68.86.94.154 11.761 ms 11.743 ms 11.340 ms
14 162.151.87.226 12.469 ms 12.162 ms 12.392 ms
15 162.151.79.134 12.757 ms 12.800 ms 12.797 ms
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
This suggests that hop 16, 68.87.227.122, is not accepting/passing
protocol 4 packets. The hostname for that host is
lag-2-240-acr07.pinole.ca.sfba.comcast.net.
I hate to throw you to the wolves of comcast's customer service line,
but you may need to find out from them if they suddenly started filtering
out inbound IPIP packets at that router.
- Brian
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 09:50:40AM -0700, Cathryn Mataga via 44Net wrote:
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 09:50:40 -0700
> From: Cathryn Mataga <cathryn(a)junglevision.com>
> To: AMPRNet working group <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org>
> Subject: Connecting to 44net
>
> I'm not connected to 44net anymore, when I ping, to me at least, my
> outgoing packets look correct, but I get no response ever.
>
> I'm trying to put together as much as I can. My gateway ips 44.4.28.50
> at 50.79.209.150, I have a static IP.
>
> I'm current on the portal, far as I can tell with no error messages.
>
>
> ping 44.0.0.1
> PING 44.0.0.1 (44.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> *no response ever
>
> I see the outgoing, but never the ping back.
>
> tcpdump -vv -i enp4s0 host 169.228.34.84
> tcpdump: listening on enp4s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size
> 262144 bytes
> 09:39:25.982188 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 54479, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto IPIP (4), length 104)
> hamradio.junglevision.com > amprgw.ucsd.edu: IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64,
> id 14161, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
> ke6i.ampr.org > gw.ampr.org: ICMP echo request, id 25489, seq 105,
> length 64
> 09:39:27.006173 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 54594, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto IPIP (4), length 104)
> hamradio.junglevision.com > amprgw.ucsd.edu: IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64,
> id 15137, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
> ke6i.ampr.org > gw.ampr.org: ICMP echo request, id 25489, seq 106,
> length 64
>
> I occasionally see one of these, which hints to me that ipip is making
> it to my gateway.
>
> 09:39:15.386222 IP (tos 0x20, ttl 48, id 32657, offset 0, flags [none],
> proto IPIP (4), length 60)
> amprgw.ucsd.edu > hamradio.junglevision.com: IP (tos 0x0, ttl 237,
> id 33644, offset 0, flags [none], proto TCP (6), length 40)
> no-reverse-dns-configured.com.46324 > ke6i.ampr.org.finger: Flags
> [S], cksum 0x039d (correct), seq 2046795537, win 1024, length 0
>
>
> ip tunnel list tunl0
> tunl0: any/ip remote any local any ttl 64
>
> ifconfig tunl0
>
> tunl0: flags=4289<UP,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1480
> inet 44.4.28.50 netmask 255.255.255.255
> tunnel txqueuelen 1000 (IPIP Tunnel)
> RX packets 2259 bytes 305270 (298.1 KiB)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 2874 bytes 233904 (228.4 KiB)
> TX errors 232 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 232
>
> ifconfig enp4s0
> enp4s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 50.79.209.150 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast
> 50.79.209.159
> ether 8c:89:a5:64:04:4c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
> RX packets 140452 bytes 25244334 (24.0 MiB)
> RX errors 0 dropped 473 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 53461 bytes 5807456 (5.5 MiB)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
> ampr-ripd -d -t 44 -a 44.4.28.50/32 -s -L ke6i@cm87uu
> Using gateway 50.79.209.158 for direct 44net endpoints via interface enp4s0.
> Calling home
> Waiting for RIPv2 broadcasts...
> Simple password: ***********
>
>
> ip rule list
>
> 0: from all lookup local
> 44: from all to 44.0.0.0/8 lookup hamradio
> 45: from all iif tunl0 lookup hamradio
> 45: from 44.4.28.50 lookup hamradio
> 32766: from all lookup main
> 32767: from all lookup default
>
>
> ip route list table hamradio
> 44.0.0.1 via 169.228.34.84 dev tunl0 proto 44 onlink window 840
> 44.2.0.1 via 191.183.136.1 dev tunl0 proto 44 onlink window 840
> 44.2.2.0/24 via 216.218.207.198 dev tunl0 proto 44 onlink window 840
> ...
>
> I don't think it's a firewall issue, I've turned off firewall and it
> doesn't fix anything.
>
> My route table looks healthy, so I think ampr-ripd is worrking correctly?
>
> Tried to include as much information as I can, thanks for any help!
>
>
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Hi everyone, new 44Net list member here. I'm trying to setup the OpenVPN connection to the OH7LZB VPN server. I'm primarily using this link (http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/AMPRNet_VPN), but I am planning to update it once I get my connection working. Looking thru the archives, it seems a number of us have had challenges with the setup.
If someone has successfully configured it recently, maybe you can help me out with my setup? The encryption and auth seems to not negotiate, the connection never sets up. Per Hessu's response to my email (below), perhaps it has to do with the newer version / algorithms trying to get along with the server version.
Thanks in advance for any assist.
- Matt / KM4EXS
-------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Heikki Hannikainen" <hessu(a)hes.iki.fi (mailto:hessu@hes.iki.fi)>
To: matthew(a)alberti.us (mailto:matthew@alberti.us)
Sent: August 18, 2019 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: 44Net VPN Setup
Hi,
I generally prefer to have these discussions on a mailing list so that the answers are archived
publicly, and others can look for existing answers from the archive instead of asking the same
question again. I run aprs.fi so I get a lot of questions and emails.
The log, at this verbosity level, doesn't actually say what went wrong in the negotiation. I think
there was a thread on the 44list before where someone resolved this issue, something to do with new
versions of openvpn openssl refusing to use the older algorithms currently configured on the VPN
server.
https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/private/44net (https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/private/44net)
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019, matthew(a)alberti.us (mailto:matthew@alberti.us) wrote:
Hi Hessu,
I pulled your e-mail address off the 44net mailman list. Didn't want to spam
it, as I think I am missing something easy.
I'm trying to setup an OpenVPN connection to your server, so that I can get
an AMPRNet IP. I have followed the instructions at
http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/AMPRNet_VPN (http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/AMPRNet_VPN). It looks like I'm stuck after the CA
is verified, but before the data channel encryption/auth is negotiated.
Below are my logs. I was hoping you could take a look at the server side, my
public IP is 184.82.197.68. I think I'm probably using the wrong client
settings. I'm trying to set this up on a pfSense router.... so I have to
enter all the settings manually. I am trying to use BF-CBC and SHA1... but
also tried a few other combos. No luck.
Thanks in advance!
- Matt Alberti / KM4EXS
Aug 17 16:47:52
openvpn
18908
SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting
Aug 17 16:47:52
openvpn
18908
Restart pause, 5 second(s)
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See
http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm (http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm) for more info.
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to
call user-defined scripts
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]85.188.1.118:1773
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[57344->57344]
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
UDP link local (bound): [AF_INET][undef]:0
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
UDP link remote: [AF_INET]85.188.1.118:1773
Aug 17 16:47:57
openvpn
18908
TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]85.188.1.118:1773 (via
[AF_INET]184.82.197.68%), sid=368827b7 79c57373
Aug 17 16:47:59
openvpn
18908
VERIFY OK: depth=1, O=AMPRnet, CN=OH7LZB VPN service CA
Aug 17 16:47:59
openvpn
18908
VERIFY OK: depth=0, CN=ampr-gw.he.fi
Aug 17 16:48:57
openvpn
18908
TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your
network connectivity)
Aug 17 16:48:57
openvpn
18908
TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
- Hessu
