On 28/7/21 8:08 pm, Matt Perkins via 44Net wrote:
Yes not painless for me. One of my use cases for a BGP advertised network in the 44.128/10 is that a DMR master sits within the range.
That's pretty significant!
It was specifically chosen rather then a ISP's IP as the master address would not change as it had a bit more autonomy then one provided by an ISP which was out of our control if we wanted for example to change ISP.
I used to use a /28 from my provider, but the problem was they needed to change their feeds a few times, forcing a renumber (think I had about 3 of those, before switching to 44.190.x space). And I wanted a long term stable allocation, so I didn't have to go through those administrative hoops I previously mentioned.
The result is a very large number of repeaters spread around remote locations in Australia most requiring 4WD access some not even accessible until the dry season that would need to be visited to update the repeater config via laptop.
Ouch! That's definitely going to be nasty.
I can do it but it's in no way painless. I might be in the minority but for us it's not just a couple of web sites.
I don't have the accessibility problem, just a LOT of software infrastructure. Like you, doable, but far from painless.
And I'm going to have to carry something like 400-500 IPs on the system during transition!