30 Dec
2020
30 Dec
'20
8:40 a.m.
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 you write "choose your protocol (there are
several)" and that could mean we could have several "standard protocols"
and they need not be the same set all over the world.
I would probably choose one protocol among others for personal reasons,
but you may choose another one for other good reasons :-) OpenVPN and
Wireguard are examples of suitable protocols. The "standard" may allow
two or three of them. The POP / gateway should support both (with a
common set of basic features, and some other features enabled/disabled
according to the protocol capability). And the end users could choose
their "client" protocol.
Of course, handling several tunneling protocols may complicate the
gateways. But keeping some freedom of choice is IMHO a key for acceptance.
This does not apply for routing protocol, anyway. It would have to be
unique. As it's commonly used in many places, I think BGP (including
eBGP and iBGP variants) is a good candidate.
73 de TK1BI