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ampr-ripd

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

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