Re: [44net] Echolink proxy/relay hosting

For some time we have been hosting Echolink proxies and relays on the system that is the gateway for 44.137.0.0/16 (BGP routed) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We use a /24 subnet for that. Such proxies and relays facilitate the use if Echolink by users and repeaters that are behind NAT or are otherwise firewalled. About 100 repeaters around the world use our proxies, and over 600 users of the mobile app use our relays. Each Echolink proxy and relay requires a different IPv4 address. This can be a static address on internet, but often people have no /24 to spare for such things. AMPRnet provides the required address space. (unfortunately with an unintended side-effect, but in general it works well) For performance of the Echolink system it would be best when there are more places with a similar setup, distributed around the globe. Are there other BGP-routed sites outside Europe where such a service could be run? I have written a C program for this, that uses considerably less resources than the original Java software. On a 2.67GHz XEON server it causes a load around 0.05 for our 200 proxies and 10 relays. Of course it makes some network traffic, about 3 GB/day for the relays and similar for the proxies. When you have your gateway located in a suitable datacenter and are interested in such a setup to facilitate Echolink, please send me an e-mail and I can provide more info. Maybe we could even get the whole echolink.org infra hosted on AMPRnet space, which would solve the problem there now is with partially connected AMPRnet networks. (when the directory server is on AMPRnet, the problem with NAT between HAMNET and internet disappears) Rob _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net