Subject: Re: [44net] Strange Broadcasts... From: Don Fanning don@00100100.net Date: 06/15/2015 12:35 AM

To: AMPRNet working group 44net@hamradio.ucsd.edu

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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