Hello all,

It seems that the ampr-ripd daemon will be included into Debian by the DebianHams group.

To be able to fit into an easy setup for all fellow hams, after discussions with Brian Kantor and Ana C. Custura taking care of packackaging it, we reached the following conclusions:

- The RIP password was never actually meant as a security feature, more a validation mechanism

- Everyone having access to the RIP data can actually extract the password by sniffing the stream

- Since access to the network implies a gateway registration, and the RIP sources are well defined and restricted, the password could be ignored.

Now, as a result of these discussions, I made some changes to the ampr-ripd daemon:

- the RIP password is now included into the source file. The RIP data will continue to be validated against this password.

- the password option can be omitted, but is still there for compatibility reasons and if it would be necessary to change the password at a later time

- password discovery via debug mode still works

- a man page for ampr-ripd was added (Tnx. Ana)

You can get the updated ampr-ripd from:

Internet: http://www.yo2loj.ro/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-1.14.tgz 44Net: http://yo2tm.ampr.org/hamprojects/ampr-ripd-1.14.tgz

or from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/yo2loj/ampr-ripd.git

Have fun,

Marius, YO2LOJ