RE: satellite hookup

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:

IP> Hey Dingo,
IP> 
IP> I had a one way sat link here for a while....
IP> It ran a Hughes card in it....
IP> I tried to get it up under Debian but noone supported it.
IP> I ended up running it under 98.
IP> Finally after much trouble, we took it off line and went back to ISDN
IP> 
IP> Hope you have better luck.

well that's my problem, i live out in the sticks, so my only choices are either
modem, which never gets over 31k2, or sat link .. from what i found on the
net so far, the sat link works by tunneling all outgoing traffic through the
sat net provider.

if the tunneling is ip/ip then there shouldn't be any big problem to use any
linux box for it. what scares, me is me investing in something that uses some
proprietary tunneling protocol.

another thing is, how well telnet works via the sat link ? i mean there is
surely some limited number of transmitters on the satellite it self, so only
limited number of people can be served at once, that means everyone has to take
their turn, and that there will most likely be some initial delay. 

with browsing web pages this is really not much of a issue, most of them
should fit well within the alloted burst of data, but it could be problem with
remote shells and other things that send/receive alot of small packets.

well this is my theory, i'm sure there is a way to route only specific ports
through specific network interface, so the best way would be to route http, ftp
and all media protocols thru the ip/ip tunnel and rsh/ssh/telnet/mud/whatever
thru the normal ppp interface ?

well that is if there is a way to hook up their proprietary hardware to linux
in the first place, i'm in no shape to write custom kernel module for something
like that ;)

				Thanks,
                                                Dingo.


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