Re: [44net] RIPv2

Agree with you Rob. I had all sorts of issues running from home here in the UK, the IP address didn’t change very often but the link was never really that stable. I was able to get hold of a fixed IP from our work addresses and run an OpenVPN server there, my home server and anything else I need connect through routes through the VPN and all my problems went away. Regards Andy Brittain G0HXT g0hxt(a)greatbrittain.co.uk > On 28 Jul 2015, at 09:39, Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org> wrote: > > (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) > _______________________________________________ >> Subject: >> Re: [44net] RIPv2 >> From: >> Brian Kantor <Brian(a)UCSD.Edu> >> Date: >> 07/27/2015 05:44 PM >> >> To: >> AMPRNet working group <44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:26:08AM -0700, Assi Friedman wrote: >>> >Addressing residential internet service with DHCP is a problem with the >>> >encap method. Does RIPv2 address this problem? >>> >Thanks, >>> >Assi >> Short answer: Not really. >> >> If you're referring to the dynamic nature of some home connections where >> the address may vary from hour to hour or day to day, there is no good >> solution to the problem. > > It is interesting to see that the implementation of home connections varies so much over > the world. Over here there is a legal obligation to always be able to produce the name > and address of the subscriber that owned an IP address at a certain point in time, and it > appears that most providers have taken the easy way of assigning a fixed IP to each subscriber. > > DSL connections all have a fixed IP. Cable connections usually have an IP that is fixed > as long as you do not turn off the cable modem for a few days or so. There is no hourly > or daily cycling of addresses anywhere. > > Truly dynamic IP is only in use here on mobile connections, and often they are behind NAT > so not possible to use an ipip tunnel on them anyway. I have implemented OpenVPN and IPsec > on our gateway so those users still can get connected to AMPRnet. > > I would think that when your address really changes hourly, and you want to be on an AMPRnet > tunnel, it would be best to arrange something similar, a VPN to a system on a fixed address. > It should be easy to arrange for such a thing, e.g. with a group that share a cheap VPS for it > that can also be used for mail, a webpage etc. > > Rob >