30 Dec
2020
30 Dec
'20
10:22 a.m.
Le 30/12/2020 à 16:06, Rob PE1CHL via 44Net a écrit :
Ok, that is not my opinion. I think we should avoid running into traps like "let us
choose that new wireguard as the
standard protocol to be used by everything" as we would again exclude everything
outside of Linux and OpenWRT
and end up in the same situation as we now are with IPIP mesh: always requiring the user
to install a Linux box.
I'm not talking about choosing a specific protocol. I'm talking about
using a platform that allows installation of standard open-source
software (including the specific software we may need to write for
specific tasks). Too many of us had previous (bad) experiences with
closed software, hardware or service provider. We'd like to be able to
get rid of it completely, HI :-)
A good new network should be usable from a surplus
Cisco router with IOS 12.4 or another standard
branch office router just as well as from a Raspberry Pi.
We are not implementing a standard Internet variant. We are trying to
implement a new version of a ham radio network. But we have to keep some
compatibility with existing things. And some things are very tricky.
Trying to implement them with a router targeted for business
applications may be complicated and/or very restrictive.
We often talk about Linux (or one of the many flavors of Linux) because
it's the perfect Army Knife, or LEGO toolbox, for many, many things. The
POP/gateways will be virtual, and thus, will require Linux. Linux can
use standard network protocols (in the same way as Cisco does), but it
also allows the use of any other software not supported by Cisco, and it
allows the use of scripting/programming languages. We are radio
amateurs. One of our main purposes is experimentation. Linux is a
perfect platform for experimentation. OpenWRT is an optimized version of
Linux for routers, and runs on $20 hardware. FreeBSD is some kind of
cousin of Linux and often used in software firewalls. There are many
other ones...
My fear is that if we use business refurbished routers, we'll limit
greatly the available features.
Anyway, as there seems to be some fans of that kind of setup, maybe we
can design the base tunneling protocol so that it can be implemented on
a business router. But which one ? Cisco ? Juniper ? Fortinet ?
SonicWALL ? Do all those manufacturers support the same tunneling
protocol with NAT traversal and dynamic endpoint IP ?
Moreover, my suggestion was not to restrict to ONE tunneling protocol,
but to choose two or three. One of them can be a "business" protocol
currently implemented in business routers...
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