I'm wondering of anyone has successfully got a
gateway running in Amazon's EC2 service?
I was thinking of using a raspberry pi with a tinc VPN to the EC2 instance to tie into my
RF connection regardless of my IP address.
I hit a wall when it came to getting ampr-ripd running.
It is a bit difficult to help you with such a problem description, but in general (I have
no experience with EC2) you should
be aware that such services do not give you a fully virtualized machine where you can do
what you want, but rather they
use Xen Paravirtualization where a modified kernel is running, and it often does not
include the module required for
IPIP tunneling. That may be the wall you are hitting, but it would not be the problem of
getting ampr-ripd running
but to actually get the tunl0 interface working. So you need to explain better what your
problem is. Maybe it can be
worked around using another program by Marius: amprd.
I have a Raspberry Pi running at a hosting company and running the usual configuration for
a gateway under Linux,
and of course that does not have that limitation. I have a VPN to it from home. Indeed
it is a nice way to get a gateway
running without the trouble of getting the IPIP traffic to your home system.
(but it is not used much anymore as I now have a radio connection to the network)
Rob