Re: 44/8

[Matt Brennan <brennanma () gmail com>]

In addition to my day job I also run IT for a 501(c)(3) ham "club" that
does amateur radio based public service and emergency communications. Our
annual cash donations are about $100. We could never afford an IPv6
allocation or an AS number. I wish we could because I'd love to use some of
the AMPRNET space for some of our operations. Our ISP doesn't support IPv6
yet, so I won't even get into that discussion.

While we don't have cash, we frequently get donations in the form of [used]
equipment. Our entire network backbone is Cisco. Our radio systems are
almost exclusively Motorola public safety grade hardware. Our Internet
connection is paid for by a served agency. People are happy to donate their
time, services, and hardware to us; just not cash. Saying that not having
cash on hand means you don't have the resources to do packet radio is not
necessarily true.

-Matt, NM1B


On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:44 PM Naslund, Steve <SNaslund () medline com>
wrote:

> So, if ARIN allocates a v6 assignment to ARDC how do you plan to use it
> without a router or BGP.  Whether it's v4 or v6 you need to route it
> somewhere.  If you have a PC, you can have a router and if you don't have a
> PC you probably don't need to worry about any of this.   If your club can't
> afford the address allocation then you are probably in too expensive a
> hobby.  That is one of the cheaper things you need to get to do radio data.
>
> Steven Naslund
> Chicago IL
>
> > Yeah because v6 only is the answer plus tour assuming all of these clubs
> have routers and BGP and the money to get an allocation and ASN....