From: Scott Lambert (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 03:22:11 EET
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:33:40PM -0500, Dustin wrote:
> Hello,
> 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.
> 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.
Don't make up your own IP numbers. I would suggest you go with IPv6.
If you have your heart set on IPv4, please limit yourself to the RFC1918
address ranges. The last thing we need is for one of these radio only
sites to "accidentally" get hooked up to the Internet. Especially if
it happenned to be at an ISP that doesn't do proper ingress and egress
filtering.
IPv6 offers some mobile use features that could be handy if you want to
take your laptop with you on the road.
I would also suggest not making it radio only. Use configured tunnels
across the Internet to make connections to isolated nodes.
> 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.
I don't have a packet setup yet. So I don't know what is workable with
amatuer radio based packet networking yet. I'm going to have to go
hunt down this soundmodem package and see if it compiles on FreeBSD
now. :-)
If you decide to spearhead an effort to do this, perhaps you could
convince the ARRL or another similar organization to get an official
IPv6 prefix.
-- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin -- Looking for work. gyta@lognet.com.br http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 2.5 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. The last 5 months have included exposure to Solaris 7, True64 5, and Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to ixew@thlv.de More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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