Hi, We are looking into linking our D-Star gateways to our existing data-link network between FM repeaters.
We already have some of our FM repeaters linked to eachother via 5Ghz Wifi links, and a central internet uplink in a datacenter with a 100mbit uplink. This is used for echolink operation currently. Since we already have 2 sites that are starting a d-star gateway, we would like to use the same network for the internet connectivity. Our idea is this: The router in the datacenter gets the lan IP 10.0.0.1/8 The first gateway gets 10.0.0.2/8 the second gateway gets 10.0.0.3/8 etc (10.0.0.4/8 for the next, .5 for the one after that, etc) Since we have a public /24 range in the datacenter, it should not be a problem to map a public IP to all the d-star repeaters, and vica versa. The question here is: Is it possible to do this ? To have the gateways on another IP then 10.0.0.2 ? The D-Star manual explicity puts the D-Star GW on 10.0.0.2, however if I look at the japanese network (http://www.d-star.jp/D-STARjapan.pdf) I see a lot of gateways on other IPs, though I realize, they are probably linked with icom linking systems, and not LAN or Wifi-Lan etc. (with this I mean: The linking is done on the RF side of the repeater and not on the Network side (behind the LAN connector) I have been looking around on the internet about this and I cannot really find a lot of info about this. Honestly, I find the 10.0.0.0/8 system a bit stupid. It would have been better if the system was developed to use the 44.0.0.0/8 space, devided into subnets such as was the case with AMPR, and have each gateway have its own subnet and use real IP routing instead of bridging and tunneling etc. But I guess this was a choice to support roaming over different repeaters. 73s Robbie ON4SAX
