4 Oct
2020
4 Oct
'20
1:17 p.m.
/AMPRNet / HamNet routing is quite complicated for a
non-IT guy... /
/The advantage of using BGP even in this trivial case is... /
I'm writing this because education was a specific
question in the
survey.
The reason that we have amateur radio is to enable
experimentation with
using the radio spectrum in a way that is otherwise not permitted or
practical. With the Internet, there are certain things that are only
possible to experiment with if you have your own addresses and other
network numbers. AMPRNet is (perhaps that's too strong, and we could
say, "can be") a way of enabling a kind of experimentation on the
Internet similar to what we do with the radio spectrum.
It is not clear to me what you are getting at here! These are different
layers of the cake. Your radio experimentation will result in some way
to transport bits from A to B, but not in a network. To build a network
you need another layer, and a way to define what you need to send where
to get your message to the destination. That is what BGP is handling.
By using BGP instead of static routing, we can connect many radio links
and other links together and make a network out of it without getting
buried in manual routing chores.
Please make sure you understand that the use of BGP I am mentioning here
has nothing to do with the use of BGP on internet to route all the internet
networks. It is the same protocol, but they are different use cases.
Don't get confused when people say they have their AMPRnet subnet BGP
routed to them on internet, and other people propose to use BGP internal
to the AMPRnet network to route things the correct way, these are two
different things.
Rob