[44net] Re: Time to say "Goodbye".

Le 21/07/2022 à 09:39, f5pbg--- via 44net a écrit : Of course, they can ! :-) Historically, the first iteration of TKNet was not built to face user's requests, but mostly as a backbone for sysops, for technical purposes (low point / high point interconnect, repeater linking, high point monitoring, remote control...). It was using private addressing (10.0.0.0/8). Even today, the IP demand here is mostly from technical users / repeater maintainers. "Normal" users don't ever know what 44net addresses are ! Users usually ask for an analog or D-Star repeater to cover their area, but they do not ask for IPv4 at home. They already have all what they need with ready-to-use RPi distributions, f/ex, Pi-Star, DVSwitch, RRF Hotspot, etc... That's why later iterations of TKNet evolved to something more modern, with Plug and Play "TKBoxes" (basically, a $30 OpenWRT router with OpenVPN / Wireguard / iBGP), connecting to a "POP" (a bunch of Linux servers in a data center). Nothing very new, of course. Lots of people are building similar (but different) networks over the world. But it eliminates what I call "things of the past" : IP-IP routing with hacked software and plain-text passwords, and need to open a "protocol" on the Internet box (not easy, often undoable on current ISP boxes, and often, there's no access at all to the Internet box). Moreover, latest iteration of TKNet also offers dual addressing on every site, with both Intranet/Hamnet and public Internet addressing, just by plugging things on the right port of the router (all the "magic" being done automatically between the TKBox and the POP). -- I said several times that, IMHO, a key for mass adoption of dedicated amateur radio "Intranet" is : - building a common backbone and common routing policies - a complete redesign of user access with modern technologies - a P2P / meshed network structure, so that anybody is not tied to anybody, and can decide to connect where he wants This would make things easier to manage for sysops, and completely Plug and Play for end users. That's what we are trying to do here, at our modest level, in Corsica. With anybody that is wiling to participate. And with or without 44net addresses, HI :-) 73 de TK1BI