30 Dec
2020
30 Dec
'20
10:06 p.m.
On 12/30/20 3:40 PM, Toussaint OTTAVI via 44Net wrote:
Le 30/12/2020 à 15:13, PE1CHL via 44Net a écrit :
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
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.