[arm-allstar] Direct to Controller

[Doug Crompton]

Wayne,

   First of all the small board computers are so cheap it makes no sense to
try and jamb multiple system on it. Even for Allstar if I were doing it I
would put one node per board. Tie the boards together with an Ethernet
switch or if you wanted wireless to a router. All the connections are done
through node connections in software.

Putting all you eggs in one basket is not a good idea from a redundancy
standpoint. It also makes things much more complicated. Pi3's are $35 -
$29.95 at Microcenter instore.

KVM is an ssh connection to each board. This could be from a computer at
the site or anywhere in the world on a computer, phone, tablet, etc.  There
is no need to have monitors or keyboards connected to each computer. You
would walk in with your laptop, connected to the wifi from your router and
then use Putty or and ssh client to connect to the various computer at the
site. You could have multiple screens open at a time.

If your provider only gives you one IP the question is, is that IP nat'ed
or a provider IP.  Assuming it is a provider public IP like you would have
coming into your home you would just use a standard router to nat as many
local IP addresses behind it as you want. Then port forward in that router.

Allstar can run an unlimited number of nodes on one IP. IRLP and Echolink
can only run one.

If the IP address supplied to you is already nat'ed then you would be in a
double NAt'ed situation. That could be a problem because unless that IP
address was on a DMZ - allowing all ports to pass without a firewall - you
would have to double port forward and it would get complicated.

Also be aware that Allstar is a very competent repeater controller in
itself so properly setup you would not need any other controller.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 4:37 PM, R. Wayne via arm-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Since we aren’t doing anything fancy I’ve decided to setup a computer at
> the repeater site and to the controller, a RC-210. I’ve been reading this
> group for some time and assume that something as simple as  RasPi is all
> that I need. But I wonder: has anyone installed KVM, Virtuozzo, OpenVZ or
> any other partitioning software so that they may run Allstar in one
> container and that (ah-hum, sorry...) IRLP in another container? I run
> Virtuozzo and OpenVZ at work and the simplest PC I have is a dual processor
> AMD. I know that it won’t boot from USB unless *maybe* if I update the
> BIOS. I haven’t tried. I may have another dual Intel. I have stacks of
> these things. I’d love to use just a RasPI but I’m new to this part of it.
> My ultimate goal is to put the computer at the repeater site where we have
> 5.8GHz between each site that I want to put remote receivers on. So, I’ll
> have an Intranet even if the Internet goes down.
>
>
> OK. Here’s the biggy. My site owner only provides me one IP. I have to
> provide my own router/firewall. Not a problem. But then I’ll have to go
> DHCP. ==>> Can I do port forwarding to get to Allstar and (ah-hum) that
> other RasPI? <<== I can host a domain somewhere and assign it to the base
> IP but is there a file I can modify to specify the port? Please excuse my
> NooPness. Not sure how to ask these questions. As it is the RC-210 is only
> a three port controller. It has a hidden and very simple 4th port that I
> can put a RTCM on unless there’s an easier way like a FOB. I know that NooP
> questions are frowned upon.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Wayne
> KI6ZTP
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