On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Andrew Spencer wrote:
It has been a long time since I have done any serious networking so am still struggling with getting my head around the instructions for the Edgerouter even after reading Marius's Microtik wiki. Does anyone have a Dummies Guide version of building a new gateway on the Edgerouter X? I have a HamServerPi and HamNet node (Ubiquiti Bullet M2) ready to go and a large group of hams waiting for my setup before they start active involvement in the development of our local HamNet - something we really need in the middle of tornado alley. My thanks in advance. Andy KA5BBC
I setup a VPS to handle the IPIP mesh, and used OpenVPN to get the routable network to the EdgeRouterX. I think it did require a port forward across a router because the EdgeRouterX's OpenVPN implementation is a bit limited compared to what you can do in a VPS-based OpenVPN implementation.
Using VRF or Policy Based Routing (PBR) plus OpenVPN, one can effectively tunnel 44net addresses and routes over other network infrastructure so that at some point, the local equipment on 44net is using it as a LAN and WAN, rather than deal with all the PBR and VRF needed to route and tunnel at the edge of the network.
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