On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:56 AM Brielle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/7/2019 12:15 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > This is the action of the TCP accelerator. TCP has a "long fat pipe" > > problem where high-delay links (like a trip to geostationary orbit and > > back) demolish throughput. To combat this, satellite protocols translate > > TCP flows to a non-TCP or modified TCP protocol for transmission through > > the satellite and then back to TCP in the modem. > > Yeah, its just one of those things that really messes with you when you > are trying to diagnose obscure error messages and application behavior. > > Usually I'd be in a place 50+ miles from nearest town with cell service, > only accessible via jetboat... stuck on Iridium sat phone at $5/min > with the Sat company, their utterly useless first level support that > refuses to actually get a network engineer involved... > > I'm a patient, tolerant woman normally with tech support, but the sat > internet providers push you into a red zone so quickly with their support...
You don't happen to have some documented examples of this do you? I could use examples of stuff that broke and was hard to diagnose and fix due to unexpected proxying behavior for an argument I'm having elsewhere. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin [email protected] https://bill.herrin.us/
