[44Net] gateway updates - HIGHSPEED HAMNET

[Don Fanning]

It would probably take a modest machine like a p3/p4 filled with a gig 
of ram and at least one network interface (two+ would be better).  That 
would be roughly the power of a 3600 series Cisco.. maybe a little 
better.  Most network gear is RISC based like the PowerPC/MIPS boxes out 
there.  And their bus is better geared towards heavy network I/O.  But 
alot of times network gear manufactures skimp on memory.  That's where 
all the tables are kept.

And a copy of Quagga/Zebra..
http://www.quagga.net/

Kyle Anderson wrote:
> Don, Jeremy,
> As a hypothetical, could you give a rough estimate of the hardware
> requirements for a computer running bgp (still with default routes) if
> I snapped my fingers and most active hams started hamming out packets
> and we all peered with each other? Maybe in the US to start?
>
> hamdata.com says something like 800k hams, but perhaps half or a
> quarter of that might be reasonable?
>
> Kyle
>
> On 3/24/10, Don Fanning <don at 00100100.net> wrote:
>   
>> One can probably get away with running BGP over D-Star on the ID-1's and
>> build a network provided that you don't have mobile based nodes hopping from
>> neighbor to neighbor frequently.  RIP would probably be a better solution in
>> that case.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Steve Stroh <steve at stevestroh.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Jeremy and Don:
>>>
>>> Prattle on - at length, on this subject, with any conceivable
>>> applicability to Amateur Digital Communications!
>>>
>>> You're preaching to an interested choir here - the name of the list is
>>> SEAttle TCP/ip, after all.
>>>
>>> We had Mobile IP working at one point when we had three UHF 9600 baud
>>> repeaters, and that was an interesting time, but we were almost all
>>> running DOS / JNOS or very early Linux at the time. Now with the
>>> possibility of "128 Kbps" (HDX) and fast, cheap, computers with a
>>> more-than-capable OS and plenty of RAM, it seems to me that we could
>>> revisit some of those interesting TCP/IP things that weren't practical
>>> back in the day.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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