22 Sep
2018
22 Sep
'18
6:07 a.m.
On 22/09/18 08:50, Jason McCormick wrote:
We would like to setup a VPS host that has an
allocation advertised through BGP and also participates in the IPIP mesh. Is there a known
VPS provider that provides a VPS that will also advertise your own IPs on decent
connection at a reasonable price? I found a list somewhere (I think on the groups.io VPN
page) but it was just a list and not really any ratings or feedback. Our clubs'
repeater network is tunneled all over the place to get enough public IPs to work right for
a number of repeaters doing Allstar, Echolink, and DMR. We'd like to simplify, expand,
and increase the quality.
To me, the most important thing for you is topology. For best
performance of VPN clients, you want the VPS to be topologically as
close as possible (i.e. at least on the same continent) to your VPN
clients, to shorten the "extra" leg the VPN adds. Obviously, you want a
reliable provider that will announce the subnet on BGP for you, etc as
well. I can't offer any suggestions there.
Being in Australia, I particularly notice suboptimal routing issues
caused by tunnels, because most endpoint choices are on the other side
of the world, adding at least 200mS RTT to the path (unless the
destination was close to the other end of the tunnel). This was a
problem when tunneling IPv6 years ago (I've been native IPv6 for 7 years
now).
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73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL
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