h telecom
H Telecom is the name i operate my little network under, there is no commercial services and across
tunnels a high bandwidth is not guarenteed, but it is a way to securely transport data using my own
means and wishes.
It is increasingly handy for far-from-home working and enables me to access my local network away
from it. The name H Telecom was coined together just to be an umbrella for the serveral systems inside
it, H Telecom may also be reffered to as: 'HNG Uni[ted]Tel[ecommnications]', 'HTnet', 'HNGnet', but these
are all the same thing. The external H Telecom is IPv6 only, it's simply cheaper, and the inside IPv4
works using local space, mainly 10.0.0.0/8 space
Uptime/Status
Probably maybe 90%, things go down, I'm not spending 24/7 monitoring an email, so leave an email to
hng@su.mt and I'll reply the next day, below are some important things and how to monitor them:
- AU Gateway, Frankfurt - Ping 2a0d:2582:100::1
- BE Gateway, Manchester (At-home) - Ping 2a0d:2582:100:1002::2 (VPN ip)
- BE Gateway, Manchester (At-home) - Ping 2a0d:2582:100:1001:1001::1 (Local router IP)
- AU Device, Hypervisor (At-home) - Ping 2a0d:2582:100:1001:1003::1
- AU VPN Connection, Gateway - Ping 2a0d:2582:100:1002::1
(AU = Always Up, important service, BE = Best effort, not important, might fall)
How things work
The main IPv6 subnets work as follows:
- 2a0d:2582:100:1001::/64 for the Local network, each device on the network then gets a routed
/80 from the /64, in the form of, for example, 2a0d:2582:100:1001:100n::/80 for the nth device
- 2a0d:2582:100:1002::/64 for the new VPN network, each device gets a /128, this is because the
VPN is only used to direct traffic.
- The old OpenVPN network used 2a0d:2582:100:f4:8000::/65, this is not in use (but may work)
Meaning local clients have plenty of addresses, and local IPv4 is as follows:
- 10.40.1.0/24 is for the local clients, each client gets a /32
- 10.7.0.0/24 is for the new VPN network, each client gets a /32
- The old OpenVPN network used 10.8.0.0/24, whilst this may work it isn't in use
- Different clients also broadcast different smaller LAN segments, generally we prefer IPv6
The general capacity of the network is gigabit, internally and externally, the only time you won't get
Gigabit is for the the Exernal IPv6 onto the local network, of which may be restricted down to 100 megabits
or so in which the traffic is pushed down a tunnel. You may see an example of a speedtest here