On 22/09/18 08:14, Brian Kantor wrote:
It depends on what you want to communicate with. For other AMPRNet hosts on the IPIP mesh, clearly you want to be part of that mesh.
However, if you're just using AMPRNet in order to get your own dedicated IP address and your primary goal is to participate in the larger Internet, a VPN to a BGP-advertised VPS is likely to satisfy your wants.
True, good point, and I am a case in point, my BGP connected subnet only hosts Internet facing services, mainly Echolink proxies. I've also added an Echolink conference or two, now that I'm not IP constrained anymore. I use IPIP tunneling at home to connect myself to the mesh, BGP on the VPS for service provision. I should setup an OpenVPN tunnel between the two just to improve the routing for my subnet to the server.
I believe a significant number of people who have AMPRNet addresses and are BGP-connected really don't care much about communicating with other IPIP mesh-connected hosts; their interest is the rest of the Internet.
Since there's no way to capture flow data for these folks, we'll never know where their traffic is going. All we can do is guess from anecdotal data.
Yeah, that would be hard to gather data without running a survey of all who have registered a directly connected subnet.