Bill, WA7NWP,
I'm not sure this is best suggestion for many reasons:
- There was a discussion a few weeks back where it was determined that all stations do not necessarily run telnet (while having others test connectivity to my station, some were attempting to telnet to me). For example, my station is not a TNOS/JNOS based router, and therefore does not provide Converse (the telnet-based service we're referring to) by default. Under that guideline, my allocation would be purged.
- We also determined that, while all stations should make their IP addresses ping-able, that was not necessarily the case (either by intent or error).
- For various reasons, AMPRNet allocations may not necessarily be online or available through AMPR
- A Station does not necessarily have to download the encap to have a working allocation (one could manually add static routes from the portal list or use RIP44, for example)
- It would be impossible to use the download guideline for those using the RIP44 routing protocol, as it is multicast; and doesn't know what stations are receiving it or using it
We have to be mindful that all stations may not be identically configured, use the same Operating Systems, routing protocols nor system configurations to accomplish connectivity to AMPRNet.
73,
Lynwood KB3VWG
On 03/12/2013 03:00 PM, 44net-request@hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:
Automate it for now and the future... If a client doesn't ping/poke/telnet/download or whatever within 30days/3months/whatever - purge the entry. You know - just like DHCP but at a higher level.. :)
Bill, WA7NWP