Re: Hughesnet outage - where can I ask?

2011-02-28 Thread denys 

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:27:31 -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote:

I run a small network in the jungle of Venezuela which is fed by a
rebranded Hughesnet connection. We just had a four day failure where
the only protocol that worked was ICMP and we were completely without
communication. Traceroutes all failed in a bizarre way when using 
UDP,

TCP or GRE packets but traceroute with ICMP worked fine. Our provider
(Bantel) is blaming Hughesnet but I'm not finding anything to back
that up in forums or in searching the web. I don't want to bother 
this

forum's members with my questions regarding what the traceroute
results show and what the problem might be. Is there another forum
where these questions would be appropriate? Thanks in advance.

Greg

As ugly workaround maybe make IP over ICMP tunnel
http://thomer.com/icmptx/

My idea that maybe PEP (some acceleration software for tcp/udp) failed

Hughesnet outage - where can I ask?

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Ihnen 
I run a small network in the jungle of Venezuela which is fed by a rebranded 
Hughesnet connection. We just had a four day failure where the only protocol 
that worked was ICMP and we were completely without communication. Traceroutes 
all failed in a bizarre way when using UDP, TCP or GRE packets but traceroute 
with ICMP worked fine. Our provider (Bantel) is blaming Hughesnet but I'm not 
finding anything to back that up in forums or in searching the web. I don't 
want to bother this forum's members with my questions regarding what the 
traceroute results show and what the problem might be. Is there another forum 
where these questions would be appropriate? Thanks in advance.

Greg