Re: [44net] RIPv2

It is interesting to see that the implementation of home connections varies so much over the world. Over here there is a legal obligation to always be able to produce the name and address of the subscriber that owned an IP address at a certain point in time, and it appears that most providers have taken the easy way of assigning a fixed IP to each subscriber. DSL connections all have a fixed IP. Cable connections usually have an IP that is fixed as long as you do not turn off the cable modem for a few days or so. There is no hourly or daily cycling of addresses anywhere. Truly dynamic IP is only in use here on mobile connections, and often they are behind NAT so not possible to use an ipip tunnel on them anyway. I have implemented OpenVPN and IPsec on our gateway so those users still can get connected to AMPRnet. I would think that when your address really changes hourly, and you want to be on an AMPRnet tunnel, it would be best to arrange something similar, a VPN to a system on a fixed address. It should be easy to arrange for such a thing, e.g. with a group that share a cheap VPS for it that can also be used for mail, a webpage etc. Rob