22 Sep
2018
22 Sep
'18
5:14 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 08:02:06AM +1000, Tony Langdon wrote:
As I said, however, the routing would be suboptimal,
because you don't
have the benefit of the ipip mesh that normal tunnel endpoints have.
All traffic would have to be routed through the OpenVPN server. Choose
your VPS host location carefully! Also, the VPS will need to be on the
ipip mesh as well as directly connected.
It depends on what you want to communicate with. For other AMPRNet
hosts on the IPIP mesh, clearly you want to be part of that mesh.
However, if you're just using AMPRNet in order to get your own
dedicated IP address and your primary goal is to participate in the
larger Internet, a VPN to a BGP-advertised VPS is likely to satisfy
your wants.
I believe a significant number of people who have AMPRNet addresses
and are BGP-connected really don't care much about communicating
with other IPIP mesh-connected hosts; their interest is the rest
of the Internet.
Since there's no way to capture flow data for these folks, we'll
never know where their traffic is going. All we can do is guess
from anecdotal data.
- Brian