17 Feb
2016
17 Feb
'16
4:38 p.m.
Subject:
Re: [44net] BGP announcement questions ?
From:
R P <ronenp(a)hotmail.com>
Date:
02/17/2016 09:14 AM
To:
AMPRNet working group <44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu>
Thank you Edgar
I look for Hardware solutions for making our gateways
I know Cisco can serve as Gateway
Now i start to understand that Microtik also can do it
Do you know if anyone is doing a GateWay with Microtik ? if yes may I get the config
to do IPIP for the 44 net ?
Thanks Forward
Ronen - 4Z4ZQ
I would not recommend Cisco or MikroTik to run an IPIP gateway. It is all much too
complicated.
Get a Linux box. Seriously. Or BSD when you like that better. With a few simple
configuration steps
you have an IPIP router that works automatically and does not need manual attention or
complicated
scripts to update its configuration all the time.
MikroTik is ideal for use as internal router in a radio network: point-to-point links and
user accesses,
and running BGP on the private AS numbers. That is not the same as running BGP towards
internet!
To announce BGP subnets on internet I would recommend to get this service from an ISP.
They know
this matter because they use it to advertise their own subnets, and a good ISP can
advertise your
subnet to internet and statically route the traffic to your router.
Rob