On 2014-04-02 18:09, Robbie De Lise wrote:
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> But we still have this legacy space.
>
> I think people should look at this space as a network first and
> medium/content/errata second. What's the point of interconnection to
> the
> larger world if you don't use it?
Agreed.
HAM-Radio nowadays is so much more then just "Radio".
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Very well stated.
Most of my dayjob is still about big corporate lan networks, connected
by vpn tunnels and being natted to a few public ips.
Yep. Same here. Except with high capacity wifi links.
But I want to experiment with more. I want to
experiment with the
internet with public IPs, see what happens, I want to experiment with
BGP, transit and peering.
Yes. Exactly. And that's almost impossible to do these days, given that
you need to justify a /24 (and I think the minimum now is a /22 , but a
/24 is the minimum the global routing table will see).
And I have found a group of HAMs who share my passion
and we have
build a big wireless network as our playground, based on commercial
wifi equipment.
Excellent. Is this in the US? FNF would love to work with you guys!
And I learn from him. On the other hand I am
fluent in debugging computernetworks. And they learn
from me. And
everyone who is working on our network has his own passions in the ham
radio community that they can apply to other parts of ham radio and
learn from eachother.
Yes. Exactly. It's the community that is key. Ask for all the knowledge
and give all the knowledge you have. It's how the state of the art is
pushed forward.
And in the end, what is more beautiful about HAM-Radio
then sharing a
hobby, learning from eachothers subdisciplines within hamradio,
working as a team, learning who they are, and also learning who you
yourself are ? This is my eyes the Ham spirit.
Yes. Exactly.
44net makes this possible for hams interested in
TCP/IP (and udp,
icmp, and so on ofcourse :))
We have it. Lets use it.
But leave everyone free to use it as they see fit. If you want to
route it to the public internet via BGP, go ahead. If you want to
close it off so only other 44net users can use it, thats fine too. If
you like another way of connecting all the subnets together instead of
the ipip & gateway list system, build it, propose it, show it,
experiment, work together with other people. That is the ham-spirit.
Is that ipip/gateway system documented somewhere? I'm just getting up to
speed on the community and resources here. Is there a wiki or something
I should review so I don't ask too many stupid n00b questions? :)
I personally would recommend openvpn to connect folks up. Or tinc/n2n
(which seem to have some lower overhead). Or actual links (long range
wifi on the cheap/lower bandwidth/expeditious side, ride a dark fiber
circuit in region on the high bandwdith/slow setup/expensive side. )
Does the space have to be used only over HAM frequencies/gear? This
space is primarily for experimentation/research/learning? Several
research fibernets exist. I'd be happy to make some connections, they
would love this.
Thanks all, and apologies for too many questions from a n00b to the
community!