22 Jul
2019
22 Jul
'19
7:58 a.m.
No it is not possible with my ISP. To run any local
services is a
violation of the ToS agreement. The ports and services they close they
will not open. I've tried. They also incorporate a watchdog on all
sockets that destroys them after so many minutes of "birth". This kills
client services such as VPN, SSH, etc. Web services often aren't
affected since most web elements are downloaded within 300 seconds +/-.
I would go away. How do you get IPIP working over that? Probably not
working correctly either.
IMHO the dependency is a moot issue. If I used your
VPN I'd be dependent
on you... but you're suggesting that you can still reach me if my ISP's
edge router dies and this is not true. Also if I were on your VPN, I
would have to travel all the way to the netherlands and back half way
across the US to reach say Indiana. So very inefficient.
I don't suggest that you would use only our VPN server, you could
connect it in addition to some other to have additional redundancy
and maybe a more efficient path to western europe.
You (or ARDC, using their money) should eastablish one or more VPN
servers on the eastcoast and/or Canada, then you connect there and
those servers connect back to UCSD or maybe even advertise some of
the locally assigned subnets on internet BGP.
Then it will improve your connectivity to internet, and connectivity
to other AMPRnet systems is the same or similar.
Furthermore, you can buy a 4G router and use that as a backup for when
your ISP link or -router dies, and you can switchover all your routing
to that path automatically within seconds. Even when its address is
dynamic and probably even when they have such idiotic policies as your
ISP appears to have (because the VPN will just re-establish when it fails).
Rob