24 Jul
2013
24 Jul
'13
10:07 a.m.
Thanks for warm welcome friends :)
Jesse, WC3XS wrote:
I struggled at first with the Linux setup but when you look
at the big picture, it is not the dynamic routing but rather the
tunneling to all the distributed subnets. In this configuration,
the Linux box is the lowest cost most functional solution. And I am a
Cisco guy.
I see your point. butt take alook at mine: I already have seven PC's
runinng as routers or servers, plus few router boards and other devices.
My apartment looks like NOC. I am looking how to cut that down, not to
expand :)
Right now I am not prepared to mess with another Linux box and I want to
stick with Mikrotik. I am aware that is not that simple (I would have to
do some scipting) and has drawbacks (not real time update), but I think
it is doable, and my goal is to first try to do that. If I fail, I can
always skip back to Linux box story.
While the Linux learning curve can be steep, there are
a lot of great guys you can reach out to for assistance. They helped me.
I already directly contacted some people and I've got encouragement and
offers to help much more than I expected.
Brian Rogers wrote:
I have several resources available online for amprnet usage, mainly
linux based. I just finished writing a white page document explaining
the ax25/netrom config files in a more "layman's" term for those who
aren't as well versed in linux as others. I also have a tool online
for configuring Source Address FilterED (SAFED) gateways, Xnet
documents in english, and some other goodies. I'll be migrating them
all into a single reference point when I can find all the documents
and can put them all together. Most of them are at
http://n1uro.ampr.org under things to 'do'. A couple may be under
things to 'see'. If you're not that comfortable in a linux
environment, these may help ease the pains.
I already saw that. I am not just jumping in all this. I have an idea of
joining ARPAnet for a long time. It is just that now I decided it is
time to really get involved.
I've spent days reading all I could reach about this issue.
I prefer to take it slowly and learn thoroughly. First what I have to do
is to establish local arpanet and proper routing for the rest of the
network.
For start I have to understand this:
- why it is chosen to have to set VPNs to each single subnet in 44/8?
- why we have to use customized dynamic routing protocol instead of well
established and widely supported protocols available?
Pedja
YT9TP