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.
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.
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%).
BGP'ed regional networks provide more portals into the larger Internet and can support smaller networks via VPN and Tunnels.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Bill Vodall wa7nwp@gmail.com wrote:
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I too would like to see a routed approach - all this clumsy tunnelling house of cards junk is never going to be reliable.
Seems to me it's the other way... With tunnel's, if one station goes down all the other gateways persist. With the BPG routed system, the gateway is another weak link in the routing chain. What happens if the BPG gateway goes down - every station down stream is isolated. I've heard there's provisions for alternate gateways - but is that being used here?
The idea, that was mentioned here a few months ago, of tunnel gateways dynamically rip (or ?) announcing their existence to fellow gateways is intriguing..
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