On 6/15/05, M.Jessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys. > > I am looking for solution I could implement on a link with a huge latency > when ping replies can go up to a few hundred miliseconds, e.g sateliete > links. > What I was thinking about is some kind of virtual interface which could > translate tcp to udp in one of the pears of the link and push the data it > received from a 'normal' interface through the virtual interface without > bothering about ack-timing. > The receiving end would have a similar interface which would translate the > udp data stream to tcp and then route it out to the internet. > (normal network)tcp<-->virtual udp interface<-------->virtual udp > interface<-->tcp(normal network) > > Is there something avaliable on FreeBSD that can be used for that purpose? > Maybe someone is working on such a thing in CURRENT ? > Any thoughts about that? Any sugestions for a solution?
I suppose you can use OpenVPN for that, which encapsulates all IP traffic into UDP datagrams. But still, your TCP implementation will time out as if there wasn't any tunnelling involved. > > > Regards, > Marcin Jessa. > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- If it's there, and you can see it, it's real. If it's not there, and you can see it, it's virtual. If it's there, and you can't see it, it's transparent. If it's not there, and you can't see it, you erased it. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
