On 20/04/18 03:07, Rob Janssen wrote:
At the moment I am in contact with the Jonathan from Echolink and he is interested in setting up more relays as his existing relays in the US are getting overloaded. (he has temporarily moved some US users to our relays in Amsterdam)
I think now that this is under change we could suggest moving everything to AMPRnet and it should solve the NAT problem there is now. Maybe the directory server could have both an AMPRnet and a public address to resolve remaining issues.
Well, I have a VPS in Melbourne, which runs IRLP reflector 9550, among other things. I currently have a /28 of public (non AMPR) IPs, which are fully utilisied by Echolink. I could ask about getting a /24 BGP announced, so I could participate.
One thing I am not seeing addressed by this proposal is what happens with the nodes themselves, which are the the most problematic part of Echolink (and IRLP) due to their incompatibility with NAT (requiring port forwarding to work at all).