Bryan,
You have it backwards. UCSD lets us use their network connectivity for free because it's beneficial for their research.
If they no longer find it useful then they may not be willing to swallow a /8 of random traffic.
If there are ISP's willing to do that for free, I'd be very surprised.
-Neil
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Bryan Fields Bryan@bryanfields.net wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ On 6/15/15 2:22 AM, Brian Kantor wrote:
There's no question that the shim system is the more elegant and perhaps more useful mechanism, but I'm very concerned about the cost issue, as we have no budget to buy hardware. It'd have to be donated. People typically don't have rackmount servers sitting around. Especially not with a 10GbE interface, which might be necessary to connect to the telescope.
There are drawbacks to crowdfunding. Plus my experience with getting donations from hams has been poor. We are a cheap bunch. - Brian
10g interfaces?
What is the utilization of the interfaces? If it's a transiting an old freeBSD box (still need details on this), surely we're unable to do 10g Ethernet in something that old (5.3 was the time 10g was introduced for the Intel driver), and since that's the choke point, a raspberry PI or router-board would be able to handle 1g.
I have a quad xeon server I'd be willing to donate to it if need be. It's even got an IPMI in it and 6 x1g copper interfaces, and I use it as my backup virtual router lab.
How about a donation from the network telescope people, since they are using 44/8 for free? If they are unable to provide even the smallest help, what benefit does it give ham radio/ARDC for them to use the netblock?
-- Bryan Fields
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