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