Has anyone put together a program that will periodically test data connectivity to the current "access point" (dstar repeater), and if that repeater is non-responsive, automatically switch through a list of repeaters round robin until it finds an active connection ??
Would there be any interest in a program to do this, and perhaps a bit more ??
I'm setting up what amounts to a mobile network hot spot with backhaul transport agility that will be capable of backhaul over D-Star, 2.4ghz Mesh, and 4G wireless, with the routing selected automatically based on the current availability and reliability of each potential backhaul link. End users (other hams, personel associated with a served agency) will connect via hardwire ethernet or Part 15 802.11B/G, and gain access to services through a web portal installed on the routing computer. Security will be implemented by blocking all traffic from the Part 15 network until such time as the end user logs into the web portal, thus allowing the the portal to validate their identity and load the account profile which will contain information about the "roles" which the account may access. The majority of roles will grant access to services provided directly by the portal computer (webmail, weather radar, etc) where the portal is acting as a concentrator/cache such that many users viewing the same information produce no more traffic than a single user viewing the same information. However, each role in the system will optionally have an associated profile of protocols/ports/addresses which will allow the portal to open a very specific set of holes in the firewall for the end user, allowing direct access to the backhaul network to support applications that cannot be handled by the web portal directly (streaming video, file transfers, etc)
Comments appreciated :)
John AE5ET Barrett
