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....