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. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 3 days, 11 users, load average: 0.00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-