A reminder to those using icmp echo/reply (ping & traceroute) to measure network performance.
Due to DOS attacks many ISPs rate limit ICMP echo/reply traffic because it is usually kicked over to router’s CPU instead of being handled in hardware.
I’ve been bitten by this a couple of times trying to diagnose network issues.
Neil N0SFH
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:21 PM K7VE - John via 44Net < 44net@mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
If you haven't reviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsmGaFZ2MM it might be a good time to do so. There is also a group at https://groups.io/g/net-44-vpn -- I am using Spartan and they have a $2.50/mon. VPS and will advertise your 44.x.x.x address space /24 or larger.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:13 PM Jason McCormick via 44Net < 44net@mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
Not wanting to pile on here... but I do recommend for this use case to stand up a lightweight VPS that will do BGP announcements on your behalf and then use that as your own IPIP or GRE tunnel back to your onsite location(s). We have three points of connectivity into a single VPS that are routing our 44Net space to a multisite system that supports a strong mix of DMR, D-STAR, YSF, and Allstar/IAX2 as well as logging, telemetry, etc. Works great and is much more robust than the IPIP mesh. It also
allows
us to do the IPIP/GRE over IPv6 addressing so we can avoid NATing connections over standard cable modem connections.
There are a few providers that will do BGP announcements for you with a cheap VPS, but we have had very good success with FreeRangeCloud.com.
Jason N8EI
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