44net-request@hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:

Subject: Re: [44net] Running for ARDC director position From: "." lleachii@aol.com Date: 04/18/2014 04:59 PM

To: 44net@hamradio.ucsd.edu

I keep a little copy/paste history and info athttp://kb3vwg-010.ampr.org but I'm definitely not the AMPR historian, by experience.

I checked there and I read:

There are two negative aspects I can think of: - Speed: Even an IP frame from one host in Germany to another has to go via ucsd.edu . That way it has to cross the Atlantic two times.

That is not correct. The tunnel mesh does not work like that. Traffic between 44net hosts flows directly from gateway to gateway in an IPIP tunnel between them. amprgw is not involved in that at all. Only traffic from outside to inside 44net is via amprgw, and there are now other gateways as well that serve smaller subnets (e.g. in Belgium and Germany). All gateways have IPIP tunnels to all other gateways, and the traffic flows according to the shortest route via internet between the gateways.

Rob