"I'm still dreaming of a HAM Radio variant of Facebook..."
You are hereby summarily banned from ever operating a ham station ever again. This ban will perpetuate along 7 generations of your spawn. :)
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Bill Vodall wa7nwp@gmail.com wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Replying to John a bit out of order...
BGP'ed regional networks provide more portals into the larger Internet and can support smaller networks via VPN and Tunnels.
For sure if we had more traffic it would be good to have multiple gateways instead of the existing sole system. Then the smaller networks could tie to each other via Tunnels and VPN to preserve the reliability. (The real need for any connection between 44 net and non-44net would be another good discussion...)
If the BGP is in a 'hardened' data center then its probability of going down is greatly reduced over the random tunnel server running on a 20 year old computer in somebody's basement.
Maybe... But a few 20 year old basement computers 10 or 20 miles apart running ampr applications is something special that we can do and nobody else with no other technology can do.
You can multi-home BGP networks for higher reliability. It all depends on how the network is engineered. This is a volunteer effort, with distributed network design and management.
Part of engineering is considering the 'volunteers' available. Designing a system where only a select few can play (BGP routing) is less HAM oriented, UM!HO, than a basement computer system where anybody and everybody can participate.
However, I think a truly useful network of Amateur Radio related technologies is better served via high bandwidth infrastructure (99.99% of the time). Ingenuity takes over for the rest (0.01%).
That high bandwidth infrastructure is generally not 'amateur RF' so keep it simple and on the stock Internet technologies and no need for any additional routing magic.
It's all pretty much moot given the lack of a use case for either the BGP High speed or basement lower speed systems. I'm still dreaming of a HAM Radio variant of Facebook...
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