3 Oct
2020
3 Oct
'20
11:08 p.m.
On 4/10/20 3:46 am, Dave Gingrich via 44Net wrote:
For the IRLP network, in the last roughly 18 months,
we have issued VPN connections for over 230 repeaters, plus roughly 60% of our backend
infrastructure is using BGP routed 44-net addresses. Basically from service providers in
Chicago, Sydney and Indianapolis.
Those cities were chosen because the lion's share of the IRLP network is in North
America and Australia. There are a number of IRLP nodes in .UK, but we found that
performance through Chicago is more than adequate. We could light up service from
additional locations in the future, but we try to use our existing infrastructure
locations, to keep the costs down.
We started using 44-net for IRLP back in 2015. A few folks have been using 44 for far
longer.
I've been pretty happy with my BGP routed 44net space. Been a couple
of
years now. It's also helped my provider, as he doesn't need to allocate
any of his IPv4 space to me. And the bigger allocation has enabled me
to provide a significant number (~150) of public Echolink proxies, to
help those stuck behind CGNAT and similar. There's also several private
proxies for myself and a number of local hams who needed a dedicated proxy.
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