24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
5:57 a.m.
I am sorry about my multitude of questions but
sometimes I can read
things a million times and still not understand.
Would I have to use either ampr-ripd
<http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Ampr-ripd>, or rip44d
<http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Rip44d> on the server to forward the traffic
to my AMPRnet box? Would I have to use either ampr-ripd
<http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Ampr-ripd>, or rip44d
<http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Rip44d> to tell the server where to send the
AMPRnet traffic cumming from the box.
Rip44 is not for forwarding. It is used to populate the routing table for
the IPIP tunnel system. The forwarding is done by the kernel and is configured
the usual way. I.e. forwarding is to be enabled in the kernel and the proper
interfaces and subnets are added.
You would be setting up the AMPR IPIP tunneling on your brother's computer
(first ask if he agrees with that) and you get a subnet from your coordinator,
e.g. a /28 network, where your brother's computer gets an AMPRnet address
and your own computer gets another address in the same subnet, you set your
brother's computer as the default gateway, and all AMPRnet traffic is forwarded
via your brother's computer that will tunnel it over the IPIP network.
The ampr-ripd running on your brother's computer will receive the AMPRnet RIP
packets and maintain a routing table with about 400 routes, plus it has the
locally attached AMPRnet subnet that was assigned to you. All AMPRnet traffic
is forwarded between the IPIP tunnels and your local subnet.
Or can I use a "simple" tool such as BIRD
Internet Routing Daemon
http://bird.network.cz/ <http://bird.network.cz/> (the first thing that came up
when I searched
for ipip routing deamons).
No. That software only handles standard protocols, and RIP44 isn't one.
(well, it almost is, it is just RIPv2, but the handling of the information by
the routing daemon is different)
An alternative when you do not want to do as much on your brother's computer
and do have a Linux system yourself, is to just forward all IPIP traffic received
by your brother's computer to your computer over the local network, and run
ampr-ripd etc on your own computer.
Rob