Hi Chris,
Life at Ofcom has overtaken amateur radio activity almost totally for the last 3 1/2 years but I'm starting to "emerge" again, I'm sure that you understand life's nasty way of getting in the way of hobby time.
A number of D-STAR services are still hosted on my servers, including the central dsync reporting tool ( http://dsync.dstar.info/ is the public reporting page but there is an extensive admin portal too) and also some reflectors including REF006 ( http://ref006.dstargateway.org/ ). The servers are due to be re-homed to an A&A data centre, where a few of the staff are amateurs. Some of the D-STAR gateway admins have previously asked about accessing services via ampr.org IP addresses; do you think that this would be an appropriate use of the resource?
Tentatively I asked A&A if they could BGP advertise a subnet of ampr.org and they'd be happy to do that, so it's more of a question of whether D-STAR services for hams would be okay to provide via AMPRNet? Are there any rules that would prevent the dsync pages being dual homed via public IP space and ampr.org IP space? Has anyone managed to regularly route digital voice (UDP) over AMPRNet?
Sorry for all the questions but I know that you will know the answers...
73 de Darren G7LWT
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Storer, Darren darren.storer@gmail.com wrote:
Tentatively I asked A&A if they could BGP advertise a subnet of ampr.org and they'd be happy to do that, so it's more of a question of whether D-STAR services for hams would be okay to provide via AMPRNet? Are there any rules that would prevent the dsync pages being dual homed via public IP space and ampr.org IP space? Has anyone managed to regularly route digital voice (UDP) over AMPRNet?
We have a number of DMR repeaters on our block of 44net addresses. This block is BGP announced as you describe. The DMR repeaters form a "mesh" for local traffic over the local network (still the 44net addresses). Linking to the C-bridge for internet linking goes over the default route (internet). It works pretty well for the most part. We have had to QSY once or twice because someone stomped on our 5.8 GHz backhaul into the datacenter. This was causing packet loss which affected voice quality. All was good once we moved to a clear frequency (again).
Tom KD7LXL
Hi Tom,
thanks for letting me know about the DMR connectivity over 44net.
I'm now in conversation with the European co-ordinators to find the best way to support our needs.
Vy 73 de Darren G7LWT / AK4DB
On 22 January 2017 at 00:42, Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Storer, Darren darren.storer@gmail.com wrote:
Tentatively I asked A&A if they could BGP advertise a subnet of ampr.org and they'd be happy to do that, so it's more of a question of whether D-STAR services for hams would be okay to provide via AMPRNet? Are there any rules that would prevent the dsync pages being dual homed via public
IP
space and ampr.org IP space? Has anyone managed to regularly route
digital
voice (UDP) over AMPRNet?
We have a number of DMR repeaters on our block of 44net addresses. This block is BGP announced as you describe. The DMR repeaters form a "mesh" for local traffic over the local network (still the 44net addresses). Linking to the C-bridge for internet linking goes over the default route (internet). It works pretty well for the most part. We have had to QSY once or twice because someone stomped on our 5.8 GHz backhaul into the datacenter. This was causing packet loss which affected voice quality. All was good once we moved to a clear frequency (again).
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