Ciao Sam

in CisarNet (http://www.cisar.it/radiowiki/index.php?title=Italian_Cisar_Radio_Amateur_WiFi_Network_Overview:_CisarNet)

we are already using with success a Cisco router to "Gateway" our wifi national network to amprnet 44.0/8, with a lot of tunnel interfaces configured by means of a visual basic script and batch commands running by a normal windows xp computer. This script is easily adaptable for your needings. 

Sorry for my delay in the answer, but I have some trouble in receiving correctly 44net mailing list. Please discard my message if this is not useful anymore, or feel free to contact me to share our scripts.

Ciao from Italy.

IW0SAB Renzo.

[44net] Using a cisco to do the tunnelling

Rob Janssen pe1chl at amsat.org
Thu Jun 7 13:32:21 PDT 2012

 


VK4FQ/VK4TTT Sam wrote:
> Hey Guys
>
> We have a surplus of cisco routers with dsl wics due to an upgrade.
> We have put DSL into a few of our repeater locations and want to put packet (before the 12/13 storm season)
> I am looking for a config that will do the ip tunnel encap for 44 net.
>
> If you have done it please email me vk4fq at smellyblackdog.com.au with destructions please

I have studied the matter in the past and I think it will be a bit difficult.
Cisco support only a single source and destination address for an IPIP tunnel interface.
In other systems (NOS, Linux) the idea usually is that you setup a single tunnel
interface and have a routing table that tells the system where to send packets for
a certain subnet.   But in a Cisco I think you would need to configure a separate
tunnel interface for each gateway station.
The problem is that the station list is not static, so you need to write some script
that generates IOS config commands to insert, delete and modify tunnel interfaces to
track the changes in the encap.txt.

There are multipoint tunnels in IOS, like DMVPN, but those protocols are not in use
in the amateur IP net.   (unfortunate, because it could automate the entire encap.txt
hassle and solve all problems for people with dynamic addresses)

Correct me if I am wrong...   We have an unused 887 at work that I would probable be
able to get donated for home use, but I have hesitated to take the plunge.

Rob