On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:56 AM Brielle <bruns@2mbit.com> 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 bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/