On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marc Evans wrote:
> > Starband has their uplink in Georgia. The results of 60 seconds of 80 byte
> > ping packets without BST to the nearest pingable router are:
> >
> > round-trip min/avg/max = 660.2/1054.0/2046.2 ms
>
> For satellite, I believe the nearest pingable router is in orbit, so that
> does not include the trip back to Earth, or the return journey. (I could be
> wrong on this.)
In the case of starband, the (minimal) routing that can be done in the sky
is highly filtered. In fact, it is more like layer-2 switching. My
experiment actually is believed to be hitting the third router that the
packet passes through, based on TTL. All others closer are highly
filtered.
> Can you provide more information on BST? Or links to same? Since we do
> have a client stuck with it, I am interested. All I could discover about
> their proprietary software was that it was very proprietary. :-/
There is a draft RFC for the protocol. The Win32 version is known to run
to some semi-useful degree under WINE. Looking through the starband news
groups on dejanews can be somewhat useful.
As for your customer, a quick and dirty solution would be to setup their
gateway as a SOCKS proxy that sends everything through a UDP connection to
a proxy-like server that you place at a colo space. Avoid TCP. For bonus
points, use forward error correction, payload compression, and IP header
compression. Essentially, anything to make the data "stream" instead of
"chat", and reduce payload size and retransmits.
- Marc
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