Re: [44net] What is 44net?

Let me just make this clear as I can. Using BGP to bring islands of net-44 into the Internet -- Does not mean end users need BGP Does not mean end users need BGP Does not mean end users need BGP Does not mean end users need BGP Does not mean end users need BGP Does not mean end users need BGP A few, maybe as little as 10, border nodes might run BGP and *provide VPN/Tunnel services to everyone else* and not everyone needs to run the same VPN/Tunnel protocol. Routing takes care of getting from point A to point B. The idea is to have a fully connected address space using the Internet/BGP to interconnect. There can be multi-homing and tiers to minimize single points of failure. How many of you can say your 'home' ampr-lan doesn't have a single point of failure? Encap/IPIP and RIP tables could theoretically have 16 million entries for Net-44, why not use aggregation and a tiered network instead? As I see it, the end user would use a router (a cheap Mikrotik or RasPi) with one or more upstream VPN connections to a border node or sub-tier router and would route all non-local 44net traffic over that connection/those connections. All the user needs is a VPN/Tunnel configuration and credentials provided by the border node/tier router operator. So much simpler. Think big net, not personal net. ------------------------------ John D. Hays K7VE PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays>