Hello Everyone! I wondering how one might set up a private network of connected nodes? Right now I have two nodes setup here at my home, and would like to experiment with having them both tied together on my private home network, and still have one node able to access allstar and echolink, is that possible? What the main reason for this question is that many of you know, broadband is hard to come by on mountain tops and if it is available very expensive. So we are looking for other alternatives, ie Wifi links, spread spectrum T1, etc to have a private network among sites with a single public IP address, like a home network. Thanks, Monty KE7JVX
Hi Monty, It's definitely problematic. You could tie a pair of servers together if one is Allstar and the other is vanilla Asterisk like for PBX use. In the router that provides the NAT service for the two servers, you could setup port forwarding for IAX and Echolink to the Allstar node and port forwarding for SIP (i.e. 5060) to the PBX server. Not sure if you might still have issues with RTP forwarding though since SIP needs it and IAX might need it too. Hmmm.. I suppose you could try using non-standard ports for IAX, Echolink, SIP, etc but am not sure if you can get those services to listen on alternate ports (I'm not in front of my node currently to check). Necessity is the mother of invention though and it would be an interesting exercise to attempt. If you do succeed in making it work for a pair of Allstar nodes you can make it work for any number 73's neighbor! Keith KF7DRV On 2/3/10, Monty Dana <monty@ke7jvx.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone!
I wondering how one might set up a private network of connected nodes? Right now I have two nodes setup here at my home, and would like to experiment with having them both tied together on my private home network, and still have one node able to access allstar and echolink, is that possible?
What the main reason for this question is that many of you know, broadband is hard to come by on mountain tops and if it is available very expensive. So we are looking for other alternatives, ie Wifi links, spread spectrum T1, etc to have a private network among sites with a single public IP address, like a home network.
Thanks, Monty KE7JVX
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Hello Monty, I'm not big into networking but would this work for you? Option 1 Some ISP's will let you have multiple IP address into your home. Once the public IP's are in your home you should be able to assign them to each of your Asterisk servers. If the servers are remote then use your (ham wifi links etc.) Yes it would be more expensive to get more public IP's, but it would be cheaper then having an ISP drop at the hill top :-) Option 2 This is more of a question or a possible option. I see folks using cell phones (Storm Chasers on discovery channel) to push live video via mobile cell phone connection. Would it be possible to use a high speed 3g/4g cell connection on the hill top for your Internet feed? If so that would be much cheaper then (long range ham wifi links etc)... But who wants to rely on cell phones !?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!! 73, Clint KF6AAQ NODE 27058 (OFF LINE) On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:21 -0700, Keith Williamson wrote:
Hi Monty,
It's definitely problematic. You could tie a pair of servers together if one is Allstar and the other is vanilla Asterisk like for PBX use. In the router that provides the NAT service for the two servers, you could setup port forwarding for IAX and Echolink to the Allstar node and port forwarding for SIP (i.e. 5060) to the PBX server. Not sure if you might still have issues with RTP forwarding though since SIP needs it and IAX might need it too. Hmmm.. I suppose you could try using non-standard ports for IAX, Echolink, SIP, etc but am not sure if you can get those services to listen on alternate ports (I'm not in front of my node currently to check).
Necessity is the mother of invention though and it would be an interesting exercise to attempt. If you do succeed in making it work for a pair of Allstar nodes you can make it work for any number
73's neighbor!
Keith
KF7DRV
On 2/3/10, Monty Dana <monty@ke7jvx.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone!
I wondering how one might set up a private network of connected nodes? Right now I have two nodes setup here at my home, and would like to experiment with having them both tied together on my private home network, and still have one node able to access allstar and echolink, is that possible?
What the main reason for this question is that many of you know, broadband is hard to come by on mountain tops and if it is available very expensive. So we are looking for other alternatives, ie Wifi links, spread spectrum T1, etc to have a private network among sites with a single public IP address, like a home network.
Thanks, Monty KE7JVX
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