From: Riley Williams (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 00:20:46 EET
Hi Dustin.
> I was wondering if anyone knows of an organized effort to build a
> large scale IP network solely over amateur radio in the United
> States. If not, I would like to find people interested in getting an
> effort started.
I can't comment on what's going on in the USA as I'm not in the USA, but
there's quite an efficient TCP/IP over AX.25 network here in the UK, or
at least in this part of the UK.
> With the abundance of freely available software on linux, an
> efficient system could fairly easily be created. Routing software is
> available for linux so that local segments could be connected
> creating a large network. Since all of the class a and b network
> addresses are taken, we could issue ip addresses ourselves (as long
> as everyone realizes they can't use the addresses to connect to the
> internet) and ensure that a hierarchical network design was
> implemented.
Have a look at http://www.ampr.org/ for the AMateur Packet Radio
network, large parts of which use TCP/IP over AX.25 and have 44.*
addresses officially allocated for their use. These addresses are valid
across the Internet as well.
> Using soundmodem, local clubs and groups could set up a router for
> very little. This would allow hams in their area to conceit to the
> nation wide network. Linux even supports bundling links together
> into one point-to-point connection. Groups could even use currently
> existing hardware to build routers for their local groups.
I presume that "conceit" should be "connect" ???
> This would allow hams without HF privileges to communicate across
> large distances using only vhf, uhf, et cetera equipment. Also,
> vhf/uhf provide much more bandwidth than long distance HF
> connections.
> Anyways, if anyone has any interest, in this (or knows about one
> that is already in place) please tell me.
AMPR.Org has been around nearly as long as I have, and appears to do
everything you're suggesting already...
Best wishes from Riley.
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