I updated this wiki page with my findings earlier this year:
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Encap.txt
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 8:22 AM Chris Maness via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org wrote:
Yes, I am starting to get frustrated with trying to get RIP2 solutions to show any kind of connectivity. Not sure what is going on. I had munge working nicely a few years back. What are the login credentials for the ftp server? What is the hostname? Can someone post a munge script here that is likely to work on a Raspberry Pi?
Thanks for the help, Chris KQ6UP
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:05 AM Michael Fox - N6MEF via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org wrote:
Our experience is that the munge script is the most reliable. When
there have been disruptions at the main gateway, whether it was down or not sending routes or not sending all routes, or problems with RIP44d, our connectivity has been unaffected. Granted, those problems have been few - perhaps a couple/few times a year. But 0 problems is better than >0.
When we download the file, we perform a couple of checks: -- if the download fails or the result is not readable, then send an
email to the sysop and continue using the old routes
-- if the number of changes in the file is large, then send an email to
the sysop and continue using the old routes. This has saved us a couple of times when the gateways file put out for download was corrupted and missing a bunch of routes.
12 years now, and I can't think of an outage.
The only disadvantage I can see is that we don't learn instantaneously
about new routes. That's OK. I think we download/munge 4 times a day. In 12 years, that's been fine. And if we need it now, perhaps because we're trying to connect to a new forwarding partner who is brand new on AMPRnet, the script can always be run on demand. But we've never needed to do that.
Michael N6MEF
-----Original Message-----
You can still populate your routing table using a munge script and you
have several ways to get the encap file: FTP, Email or via the portal’s API.
The easier way though, is to use the RIP44d to automatically do it for
you.
More details on the Wiki: https://wiki.ampr.org https://wiki.ampr.org/
Chris
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