At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:16:25 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond) > satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux?
err, yes. Its an extremely common setup for one of the boxes from my company. > The DirecPC USB modem is a "Hughes Network Systems (HNS) Sattelite > Device", model ISU-R1. I seem to remember some commercial software a > few years ago to achieve this, but I can't seem to find anything (at > least, even remotely recent). As I recall it, there used to be some limited linux software from hughes themselves and even more limited free drivers elsewhere. To the point where we decided to develop our own drivers from scratch (almost entirely written by Herbert Xu). Now that the DW6000s are everywhere (ethernet based, no drivers needed) and the drivers are no longer a significant competitive advantage for us, Ursys could probably think about releasing the code. The main problem is that since the "4.2" release of the satellite system, a significant amount of user-level code is also required for various tunnels, key management, multicast support, commissioning, some proprietary PEP protocol used by most TCP connections, etc, etc. Unfortunately, this user-level code is tightly tied to our other pieces of software and wouldn't be particularly useful once cut out. It would be a significant undertaking for someone to turn it all back into working code again. Given the near-end-of-life of the DW3000/DW4000 range, I don't think anyone would (or should) expend that sort of effort now. If I were you, I'd seriously consider just buying a router from us (http://www.urnet.com.au/) - they're a little expensive for private use, but all the hard work is done and if you want to do VPNs over satellite then we have some features that would definately interest you. Failing that, your only real choices are: - get a two-way service and DW6000 from telstra - but you won't be able to do one-way stuff with it without layering some tunnel of your own on top, or policy routing certain traffic flows to the ISDN. - run the windows drivers and try to get a windows box to be your gateway/firewall. I think I even heard of someone who got that to work once. - beat on the sourceforge drivers and see if they support enough features to be useful for you. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
