There will be wireguard pops to let people join the network... they are still in beta.

I guess there are two camps, those looking to join the network as you say, but I'd venture to guess this group is more so looking for a public IP etc.

Then the origional camp/ spirit (at least in my opinion) is to learn.... heck maybe even create their own custom network protocol.  The sandbox effect lets one test with others without much concern of incomming traffic from the general internet.

The more recent custom protocol example is how Heikki, OH7LZB crafted the rip announcer used at UCSD.  And then Marius, YO2LOJ expanding on that to create a routing daemon to receive the data a populate the Linux routing table.

Brian Kantor (sk) and Phil Karn were both early internet pioneers and you'll discover their name in various RFC's.  (ie RFC 1226 for ax.25 encapsulation, etc)

So its a question more so of what one hopes to achieve when joining the network. 



On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 7:48 PM Trevor Halsey via groups.io <thals1992=hotmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I’ve had a 44net account for a while now and I’ve played with both setting up OpenWRT, several Linux VMs, and a Cisco 1900 (with limited knowledge and testing from work when we got fancy ISR4443’s) but never actually achieved anything. Previously I read that to achieve BGP connectivity something had to be done with the ISP to allow the AS route to be announced/routed so that may have been another roadblock. Also with the whole IPIP based traffic, you can only have a limited number of devices unless you start working nat-magic and throw everything behind the same ip.

 

Personally, I’m more familiar with VPN-based tunneling back to an endpoint and the datacenter/carrier-based router would announce the /24 route based on the status of the tunnel/ip and would not actually need to involve the non-rfp’d local carrier at all. As long as traffic could be passed through a tcp port, the connection could be made.

 

Are there any opportunities with IPSEC/SSL/OpenVPN or even SDWAN endpoints joining the network instead of needing a router and formal networking knowledge to do the same? I just keep running into the same issues with 44net even though I can muster along and setup my work sites with good old IPSEC tunnels and locking the service down.

 

Thanks,

KD8SEP

Trevor Halsey

Middletown, Ohio

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