8 Jun
2012
8 Jun
'12
3:07 p.m.
On 07/06/12 22:13, Brian Kantor wrote:
the mention of using openvpn was mostly intended as a
nudge. While IPIP
seems to be the defacto standard for amprnet tunneling, it's about the only
place I've seen it used much. The tools for tunnels/vpn links are out
there but something such as openvpn is much more widely supported than
ipip....
As a historical note, we used IPIP tunnels because that's all there was
when we got started. This was early; we were using tunnels even before
a protocol ID byte value had been assigned to IPIP. VPNs hadn't been
invented yet.
Indeed, we've discussed using openvpn before and the response was
generally favorable. It would be a great step forward for the tunneled
parts of the network.
- Brian
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Hi,
I've deliberately kept the above to keep context. There's been a large
volume of emails recently which I've not been able to completely follow
(due to a sudden job change), so I apologise before going over an old
subject.
Other than tunneling through mirrorshades, has another workable
mechanism been demonstrated? How do I participate and or help test it?
I don't work in an ISP so can't really announce 44.155.x.x/16. However,
I may be able to persuade an ISP I know to let me set up something to
test with i.e. pick a subnet 44.155.x/24 (where X isn't currently in
use), which we could advertise to test with. It is a while since I
checked though, so /24's may not be welcome in the DFZ anymore.
That said, I'm happy to wait until Brian thinks he has everything
squared away with ARIN as well.
Regards
John
EI7IG