Tom, KI4SZJ,
You covered a bunch of inquires:
1.) I run http://whatismyip.ampr.org - If you're not receiving it, it's highly likely you don't have my route properly loaded, installed and configured for use. The best way to check to see if you have routing up is to look at the route table where you have ampr-ripd placing our routes. Also, try browsing to it from the regular Internet and do a trace to your 44 IP. Here's a command to see if there's a route for me:
example@routerexmaple:# ip route get 44.60.44.10 from <YOUR ROUTER IP>
Also be sure you DIDN'T assign a remote IP to your tunl0, in that case, you only have a tunnel to the Internet Gateway for AMPR (AMPRGW).
2.) Check the firewall Wiki, there's a lot of goodies there
3.) Are you delivering any portion of your connections over a Part 97 link (not just Wi-Fi)??? If not, your inquiry doesn't really come into play. In addition, a communication (SSH) could be allowed (for example) to control a router further downstream that goes over a radio link. I plan to account by blocking those protocols where they aren't to control a router or access point...although, you may want to see my writings in some HSMM-Mesh discussion on the 'Interents' - as I propose the "meaning" of the packets never become "obscured"...but that's a whole 'nother story... About the reboot - make sure you didn't clear a manual route you entered after rebooting, you have to configure everything to be persistent upon reboot.
4.) I surmise your time comes from CDMA or GPS...I also host NTP, DNS and a HTTP server, welcome aboard! Simply assign IPs from your allocation to these devices. Make sure there's a DNS entry through your regional coordinator.
73,
- Lynwood KB3VWG