Re: Some packet questions...

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@xxxxxx>]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:03 PM, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN wrote:

> On 10/31/06 4:50 AM, "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Nothing has really changed in many years, so the documentation  
> > hasn't had
> > any reason to be revised.
> >
> > I found my local IP address coordinator very helpful in getting IP  
> > over
> > AX.25 running.
>
> I have been given so many stories concerning IP address  
> coordination that I
> got fed up with even trying to coordinate! First I was assigned a  
> 32 address
> block in the Philly area, then I was told in California that it  
> would not be
> workable. Why not? If this is truly an IP network, why would I need  
> to have
> a new set of IP address when only the physical location changed?

The subnets are assigned by state and locality.  Philadelphia is part  
of 44.080/16 and Beverly Hills is part of 44.016/16.  It's probably  
more of a routing issue than anything else.  This stuff is handled  
differently in different locations (some route by subnets; others do  
not).

> I am still interested now to find out what my current IP assignment  
> is, and
> as well what the 32 address range is I was given.

I don't see n3gwg anywhere in the ampr.org list <ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/ 
hamradio/ampr.org>.

73 - Bob, N7XY
Bainbridge Island, WA

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