On 12/30/20 3:40 PM, Toussaint OTTAVI via 44Net wrote:
Le 30/12/2020 à 15:13, PE1CHL via 44Net a écrit :
In principle I agree with that, but I fear the discussions and disagreements about what that standard should look like. Protocols are standardized, but new ones appear all the time. Many routers implement only well-established standard protocols (L2TP, GRE, PPTP, SSTP), and not newfangled things like wireguard or openvpn.
IMHO, we need specific things, so we should not target primarily business routers, but we should use platforms that allow compilation / installation of open-source software. The most obvious are Linux and OpenWRT, but there may be others.
Ok, that is not my opinion. I think we should avoid running into traps like "let us choose that new wireguard as the standard protocol to be used by everything" as we would again exclude everything outside of Linux and OpenWRT and end up in the same situation as we now are with IPIP mesh: always requiring the user to install a Linux box.
In my opinion, that is the wrong way to go. We should ALLOW the use of open platforms where users can compile their own software, but IN NO WAY should we "force" them to do so. And especially not for evangelism reasons.
A good new network should be usable from a surplus Cisco router with IOS 12.4 or another standard branch office router just as well as from a Raspberry Pi.
Rob