This has actually nothing to do with the portal. The portal manages the IPV4 allocations and tunnel and gateway interconnections.
How an user connects to an upstream gateway is out of the scope of the portal. Now if this specific gateway offers 4 in 6, IPIP, Open VPN or whatever other tunnel options, that is exclusively the decision and responsibility of the gateway owner/operator (in this case the gateway Rob talks about).
This is exactly the concept of Point of Presence: These PoPs
should offer user connectivity by what ever means they ant or are
able to, while being themselves gateways providing connectivity to
the rest of the AMPR network by any means available and possible.
This would take the burden of full interconnections from the end
users with their individual gateways to the PoP operators,
offering other well supported connectivity to their users (subnets
or individual).
These connectivity solutions can not be fully managed by the
portal, and should not be. How end users connect to a gateway
providing AMPR network access is neither uniform, nor
standardized, and outside of the scope of the AMPR central
gateway. Any such decisions would impose limits instead of
connectivity freedom, and would contradict the very foundation of
what ham radio should be about: experimentation, progress,
originality and technical freedom.
Please do not downgrade the ARDC to a IP space and grant supplier.
Marius, YO2LOJ
Awesome I did not see any documentation to that extent or config options for it in the portal. Can you please point me in the right direction.
Scott
From:
Rob
PE1CHL via 44net <44net@mailman.ampr.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 4:56 AM
To: 44net@mailman.ampr.org
<44net@mailman.ampr.org>
Subject: [44net] Re: 4 in 6 tunnel support
We do offer that on our gateway.
There is only one user (were 3 before), but still...
I agree that there is some use case for it, e.g. with
provider routers that have trouble with GRE over NAT.
Rob
On 11/29/22 20:56, Scott Gillins via 44net wrote:
I was wondering if you had considered looking at a 4 in 6 tunnel support. I know that it may seem backwards with a lot of things moving to native v6 but the 44 net is a great resource for hams. One example of why I can see needing this is a lot of providers, specifically wireless, are doing a double or triple NAT of their own ipv4 address space. While this is OK for most internet activities it is not good to support inbound connections. You do however get a native IPV6 address that is not nated and fully routable. Having a headend location to support a 4 in 6 tunnel would help a lot of folks. I do support large networks as part of my day job and would be willing to help set up and support if you wanted to take this on.
Thanks,
Scott
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