6 Feb
2021
6 Feb
'21
6:42 a.m.
Good 'morning',
I am with Bob on this, and for me personally, I have found all of this
quite overwhelming
since Brian passed, before which ; this all seemed to be in a black box,
and suddenly
we are now inundated with more BGP use then I ever imagined was going
on, and all
these technical discussions that although I am capable of understanding,
are quite
far beyond my practical experiences, and I too am questioning complexities.
It's a lot to take in for just a 'short period of time'.
I like how Rob has summarized the need below if I may put it that way.
a method to facilitate easier connection for those
that do not have the
luxury of a static IP and incoming IPIP passing through their ISP router.
Agreed.
That is becoming more and more common, and a solution
is required
not to lock out those that cannot have a suitable internet connection.
Agreed.
So we could do this in a couple of ways for starters.
a) The community steps up and provides services to those they know in
need. We're
experimenters, that's what we do. For years I 'suffered' not having
a static IP, so I
can easily relate to not being able to participate.
There are several in the community that have done this for years
already, for some
at great personal (not so much financial) expense may I add, I
wont' list them ...
When I got my static IP, I decided to run an openVPN server (yeah,
12+ years ago)
so that several amateur radio guys throughout Canada could get a
fixed 44 IP from
the rather largely unused allocation given to us for our province
(Manitoba).
I was already IPIP 'linked' to UCSD and others, and this worked
quite very well. The
only potential issue is what are you as a 'provider' willing to
absorb as far as costs,
how much bandwidth could you handle, and such.
b) Since ARDC seems to have a massive amount of cash, perhaps it can
apply for a grant
to itself and setup a bunch of openVPN services throughout the
planet. I will even manage
some of them if you like, allocate a 44 subnet for this openVPN
service, so that the once
dyndns users who are dying to get a static IP can finally get one.
I have NO PROBLEM
running this service, if someone in ARDC wants to fund it. There
are LINODE systems
world wide that could host this. I'm not partial to them, but
relatively happy with them.
Even VPS offerings from major providers all over the
world no longer
are capable
of participating in the IPIP tunnel mesh directly, as
their "control
panel firewall" only
allows TCP and UDP ports to be opened incoming ...
I pay $10 a month to LINODE to host my amprnet playground. I have more
or less full
amprnet connectivity (IPIP), just requires one special iptables rule to
make it work to
get to my user space apps.
For 12 years I had a static IP direct to my house, motorola canopy, 6
miles away, but
then the trees grew in and I was forced to go DSL, expensive, and no
longer static. So
for less then the price of running my servers at home, LINODE worked for
me, I got my
static back and the 'fun' returned.
But when someone wants to do it "the old
way", they still can do that.
Of course.
Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM