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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