New subject: Strange Broadcasts...

15 Jun 2015

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  Subject:
 Re: [44net] Strange Broadcasts...
 From:
 Don Fanning &lt;don(a)00100100.net&gt;
 Date:
 06/15/2015 12:35 AM

 To:
 AMPRNet working group &lt;44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu&gt;

  >When you want to do something about a SPOF it
is only required to do the
 >RIP transmission
 >from another system in parallel.  E.g. from the system running the portal.
 >
 >  RIP still doesn't solve routing loops that occur.  RIP doesn't
converge
 quickly (currently 44ripd takes 5+ minutes to send any new*static*  change
 - if your firewall is configured to receive said packets from said
 source). I fail to see why that is a problem.  Few gateway stations appear a day,
and having to wait
5 minutes before they are routed is really no big deal.  Before, many gateway stations
loaded
a routing table maybe once a day, or even less frequently.
Again, we are a radio hobbyist network, not some financial trade network.

...
  RIP has no concept of bandwidth limitations or
multiple paths for
 the same route (ie: load balanced connections with different ISP). 
Again, let's first set up something that is popular and has many users, and then we
can always
consider doing things like that.  For now we, and many others, find ourselves fortunate to
have
found a SINGLE ISP that wants to sponsor us.  When we setup radio connections to our
neighboring
countries we may achieve some redundancy.  And I prefer that way over settting up a
tunneling
system over the internet.  Or even over routing over the internet. Remember we are an
amateur
radio network, not some multinational company trying to setup a rendundant data network
with
zero failures.

Rob