7 Oct
2020
7 Oct
'20
4:43 p.m.
On 8/10/20 12:27 am, Toussaint OTTAVI via 44Net wrote:
Here are some quick and dirty stats :
XLX is an open-source digital gateway used all over the world to
interconnect D-Star and DMR repeaters (and many other protocols)
XLX API provides a "hosts" file of all registered XLX nodes with their IP
This file has approx. 1700 lines.
Due to triple REF, DCS, XRF naming, we can assume there are roughly
560 independent nodes.
The file contains only 36 entries using AMPR 44.x IP addressing, and
among them, only 12 are unique
*-> Only 2% of the XLX-connected reflectors are using AMPR addresses !!!*
I
don't think you can draw any concrete conclusions from this. The
reasons are likely to be multiple. My XLX (XLX432) doesn't run AMPR
addresses, because AFAIK, BGP is not available on that VPS.
However, my older VPS is hosted at a provider run by another ham, and
he's organised BGP routing of a 44.190.x.x/24, on which runs an IRLP
reflector, several Echolink conferences and a DPlus reflector (REF023).
That VPS also runs a ton of Echolink proxies (~150-200), the majority of
them public for anyone to use.
Would I like to run more on AMPRnet? Sure, but a number of conditions
need to be met:
Must have a datacentre in Australia (latency, you know)
Offer BGP routing (obviously!)
Be in a reasonable price range for a small-mid sized VPS.
Those are the main conditions. I have one VPS that meets all 3
criteria, which came on a "It's who you know" basis. :)
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73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL
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