Packages Ampr Ripd

ampr-ripd

Keeps a gateway's routes current on the amateur radio IP network

• Version recorded: 2.4.1
• Categories: packet-nodes
• Upstream: http://www.yo2loj.ro/hamprojects/

What it does

Listens for the RIPv2 routing announcements the AMPRnet gateway system broadcasts and installs the resulting routes and tunnel endpoints into the kernel, so a station on the 44.0.0.0/8 amateur network reaches the rest of it without hand-maintained routing.

Why you would want it

AMPRnet is a real IP network allocated to amateur radio, reached over IP-IP tunnels between gateways whose addresses change. Maintaining those routes by hand is not practical; this is the daemon that does it, and it is what turns a 44-net allocation into working connectivity.

Before it will work

An AMPRnet allocation and a registered gateway, which are administrative steps rather than software ones. Kernel IP-IP tunnelling. The Blend marks this as a Suggests rather than a Recommends precisely because it is only useful to gateway operators.

How it installs

• apt: ampr-ripd

Known problems

Only useful if you run a gateway; on an ordinary station it will run and do nothing visible. It installs kernel routes, so a misconfiguration affects the whole machine's networking rather than one application. AMPRnet address space has been partly reallocated in recent years and some documentation found online predates that.

Keeping it current

• probe: apt policy
• strategy: apt_upgrade

Where to get help with the software itself

Marius Petrescu, YO2LOJ. The project page above.

Source: catalog/packages/ampr-ripd.yaml