Hi guys, I just received an allocation for 44.34.96.0/24 to begin experimenting with. I plan on doing mesh networking as well as offering services as time permits.
I have two questions regarding connectivity to the network:
- I understand most folks are doing IPIP tunneling, has anyone ever done this on a Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite or VyOS? Anyone in or near Tennessee that can accomodate a tunnel for me?
- BGP... thinking entirely out loud here, but are there any VPS providers anyone is aware of that will accept announcements from 44 net that I could handle with say BIRD or another BGP daemon under linux? This would be my ideal setup and I could tunnel my own connectivity, but not sure this is possible.. looking for ideas here.
73, and glad to be a part of AMPR, I love networking :)
Stephen K1LNX
I'll echo the same questions at Stephen K1LNX - I have a /32 allocation in Michigan, and would love to start building tunnels in preparation for eventually connecting to the local RF network.
thanks
Ed W8EMV
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Stephen - K1LNX k1lnx@k1lnx.net wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Hi guys, I just received an allocation for 44.34.96.0/24 to begin experimenting with. I plan on doing mesh networking as well as offering services as time permits.
I have two questions regarding connectivity to the network:
- I understand most folks are doing IPIP tunneling, has anyone ever done
this on a Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite or VyOS? Anyone in or near Tennessee that can accomodate a tunnel for me?
- BGP... thinking entirely out loud here, but are there any VPS providers
anyone is aware of that will accept announcements from 44 net that I could handle with say BIRD or another BGP daemon under linux? This would be my ideal setup and I could tunnel my own connectivity, but not sure this is possible.. looking for ideas here.
73, and glad to be a part of AMPR, I love networking :)
Stephen K1LNX
To answer your question about BGP: there are definitely VPS providers who will advertise address space on your behalf, I am using ARP Networks to do exactly that https://www.arpnetworks.com/ you will need an LoA from Brian before they'll advertise for you.
The way I have things setup is that ARP Networks advertises my subnet from their ASN (http://bgp.he.net/AS25795#_prefixes) and then routes it it to my VPS' IP. I then use an OpenVPN tunnel to connect my VPS to my home router and then route the 44net addresses out to hosts from there.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers, Chris VE7ALB/VA7OL in Victoria
On 31/01/2016 15:49, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Hi guys, I just received an allocation for 44.34.96.0/24 to begin experimenting with. I plan on doing mesh networking as well as offering services as time permits.
I have two questions regarding connectivity to the network:
- I understand most folks are doing IPIP tunneling, has anyone ever done
this on a Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite or VyOS? Anyone in or near Tennessee that can accomodate a tunnel for me?
- BGP... thinking entirely out loud here, but are there any VPS providers
anyone is aware of that will accept announcements from 44 net that I could handle with say BIRD or another BGP daemon under linux? This would be my ideal setup and I could tunnel my own connectivity, but not sure this is possible.. looking for ideas here.
73, and glad to be a part of AMPR, I love networking :)
Stephen K1LNX
I don't think that Stephen necessary talked about advertise his subnet over public BGP.
There is the option to provide one or mode tunnels to other AMPR locations and use BGP to get the AMPR routes instead of IPIP/RIPv2. This is of course feasible, and it works nicely, and is how the entire European Hamnet works. There is a central tunneling point which provides global AMPR access, while all Hamnet paricipants use private BGP AS to maintain their routes, including the external ones.
This could be of course easily duplicated. But please use 32bit AS to prevent future collisions: http://laru.lu/on-the-air/hamnet-44net.html
Marius, YO2LOJ
I don't have a EdgeRouter myself, but if I got the Ubiquiti forum information right, it is possible to add code to the router. The only issue is if the router has a P2MP IPIP driver in its kernel, so that ampr-ripd could be used. If not, amprd which runs entirely in user space could be an option, assuming the router's kernel supports tun/tap interfaces.
This is a nice experimentation point :-)
Marius, YO2LOJ
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