Wenn das so weiter geht werd' ich mir ne #Viprinet - Kiste holen müssen oder was selbst baun und colocaten müssen...

• Weil das geht echt nicht!

#tech #EDGEland #Digitalistan #Digitalisierung #Breitband #Breitbandversorgung #Breitbandausbau #RechtAufGlasfaser #Glasfaser

AKSHUALLY, YOU ARE CHEATING!

No seriously, the idea of #MultiLinkPPP isn't new and in #EDGEland aka. #Germany there a company to this day called #Viprinet who's CEO & Founder actually patented both mixed-technology link bonding and transparent applianced devices to facilitate these links, allowing for transparent redundancy, bonding, speed and low latency, without packet drops and on-the-fly speed changes.

• And unlike #MultipathTCP and #PPP - #MultiLink setups or #MPLS it's actually an encrypted #VPN and can transparently allow all #IPv4 & #IPv6 packets through it - including #UDP - whilst not requiring cooperation from the #ISPs and being able to arbitrarily connect anything from ISDN to Cable and from 2G to 5G as well as Ethernet and WiFi...

The main selling point is that it reduces costs compared to #SDSL with guaranteed SLAs, so a link failing would merely slow down the speeds transparently.

• So yeah it makes sense in nieche applications...

@HauntedOwlbear makes sense...

I just am not a fan of #Tailscale as a centralized service and would rather evaluate #tinc (if #meshing is needed) and otherwise choose #WireGuard, #OpenVPN & #IPsec depending on the client(s) and expected throughput...

• In fact I did custom-built boxes that got them into colocation as "VPN Hubs" (similar to those #Viprinet ones ...

@SweetAIBelle @OS1337 shure.

I'm convinced that a fully-fledged image of that would be similar to #toybox's #mkroot, which is @landley 's reference implementation for a toxbox + #musl / #linux system.

• Last time I checked it came out just below 4 MB, but that was the premade image using only the stuff toybox included [and linux & being statically compiled against musl] like #gzip instead of #xz for compression, so there already is room to shave a few hundred kB without reducing functionality out of the get-go as I've seen with my build tests of #kernel666...

Either way, we're close to his reference matterial AFAICT and I do think that OS/1337 can become a good and solid foundation for #minimalist & #embedded systems.

For comparison:

• #YoctoLinux is quite #THICC in comparison (using LSB & #GNUtils for the most part!) and stuff like #OpenADK seems to be overly complex...

  • tho #Viprinet hasn't updated their stuff in like 8 years and I sincerely hope that's just them loginwalling access to #SourceCode like #grsecurity to paying customers only and not them such old Kernels.

Speaking of #grsec, I wounder if Bruce Perens actually sued them for allegedly violating #GPLv2 when in fact said license allows #paywalling aka. restricting access to buyers of the product it contains.

#OS1337

And yes, after considering the mountain of evidence I decided to choose a #permissive instead of #copyleft license.

In fact, I did choose the same license that @landley chose for #toybox: #0BSD.

https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Since #copyleft would not guarantee improvements as can be seen not only from #BusyBox but also @grsecurity and #Viprinet #VPN - #Routers.

["#Viprinux" is a botched and horribly outdated #OpenADK mess based off what they released on their website]...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121150/https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads

Also from my observation I can confirm @landley 's observations that #Copyleft doesn't help #Linux to the point that one can get archaic and long-outdated #Sourcecode like " #Viprinux " that is basically useless and is even older than #Floppinux.

https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads

Also if #Viprinet still uses 2015-dated code then that's rather scary than anything to me as a #sysadmin.

Mit @viprinet@twitter.com hätte es das Desaster so nicht gegeben.

Beim nächsten Mal nehme ich es auf jeden Fall mit.

#NieWiederOffline
#Viprinet
#bpt192