Subj : fsxNet Feedback (ZeroTier
To   : N1uro
From : deon
Date : Sat May 15 2021 06:46 pm

  Re: fsxNet Feedback (ZeroTier
  By: N1uro to deon on Sat May 15 2021 01:13 am

Hey,

 de>> So I dont agree with you.
 N1> That's perfectly fine and I'm happy to accept this. I will however
 N1> say that what you describe is not how I've had OpenVPN working in a
 N1> major corporate environment nor is it how IP works when you factor in the  netmask of a subnet.

Right I agree - I'm not talking about OpenVPN - I'm comparing it's architecture to that of ZeroTier. (I've been a long time OpenVPN user as well.)

 N1> I'm on a subnet of 44/9 which is somewhat of a vpn minus the encryption. 44.0.0.1 is the host and where BGP is announced. My IP is
 N1> 44.88.0.9 however
 N1> my path to a point in New Jersey does NOT go to 44.0.0.1, it is direct:

Its direct via the "hub" though right?

44/9 includes both 44.88.0.9 and 44.0.0.1 (and 44.64.10.33)

Network:   44.0.0.0/9           00101100.0 0000000.00000000.00000000
HostMin:   44.0.0.1             00101100.0 0000000.00000000.00000001
HostMax:   44.127.255.254       00101100.0 1111111.11111111.11111110
Broadcast: 44.127.255.255       00101100.0 1111111.11111111.11111111

If you did a tcpdump -ni tun0 on 44.0.0.1 you would see the packets coming in (from your real IP) and going out again (to the other IP). Traceroute doest show it because you are not technically traversing a router (because it is a /9 network).

 N1> traceroute to wb2snn.ampr.org (44.64.10.33), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 N1>  1  gw.n1uro.ampr.org (44.88.0.1)  5.670 ms  6.102 ms  6.095 ms
 N1>  2  wb2ona.ampr.org (44.64.255.225)  41.601 ms  45.571 ms  46.421 ms

So, if you turn off 44.0.0.1, can you still ping 44.64.10.33 from 44.88.0.9?

Further the performance of your network traffic to 44.64.10.33 is limited by the your link, 44.0.0.1's link and 44.64.10.33. If any of those links gets "busy", especially 44.0.0.1 your peformance is impacted.

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