[nos-bbs] JNOS setup

[Barry]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:47:04 -0500, Mark Phillips <g7ltt at g7ltt.com> wrote:

[snip]

> To allow external access to your system you'll need to join the global
> gateway system run by N1URO and his chums. Nothing very hard here just a
> bit of routing.

Since I'm N1URO's "chum" to whom NI2O (G7LTT) is referring, I feel somewhat
qualified to comment.  :)

N1URO doesn't "run" the global amprnet gateway system.  The global amprnet
gateway system exists because of WB6CYT, who supplies the master router
for the amprnet in his office at UCSD, and N7VR, who supplies the amprnet
gateways robot for registering IP routing entries for permanently (non-
dynamically) IP-assigned amprnet gateways.

What N1URO *does* provide is hardware and bandwidth to support:

1) DGipip, to permit dynamically IP-assigned gateways to participate,
2) IPUDP, to permit IPIP filtered gateways to participate, and,
3) SAFE, to permit source address filtered gateways to provide IP
   connectivity between amprnet PCs behind gateways and non-amprnet
   machines on the internet.

Each of the above items are available only to amprnet gateways that are
running on platforms which support them.  Not all platforms support
all "features".

-- 
73, de Barry, K2MF >>
k2mf at ptd.net