Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:05:49 -0400 (EDT) From: jeffm@frob.org To: "Marcin Jessa" <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for networking solution. Message-ID: <18857.130.76.32.16.1118934349.squirrel@www.frob.org> In-Reply-To: <20050616144707.18bfa000.lists@yazzy.org> References: <20050615114556.6df96e8c.lists@yazzy.org> <1118925438.91936.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> <20050616144707.18bfa000.lists@yazzy.org>
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:37:18 -0700 > Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:45 +0200, Marcin Jessa wrote: >> > I am looking for solution I could implement on a link with a huge >> latency when ping replies can go up to a few hundred miliseconds, e.g >> sateliete links. >> > What I was thinking about is some kind of virtual interface which >> could translate tcp to udp in one of the pears of the link and push >> the data it received from a 'normal' interface through the virtual >> interface without bothering about ack-timing. >> > The receiving end would have a similar interface which would translate >> the udp data stream to tcp and then route it out to the internet. >> > (normal network)tcp<-->virtual udp interface<-------->virtual udp >> interface<-->tcp(normal network) >> > >> > Is there something avaliable on FreeBSD that can be used for that >> purpose? >> > Maybe someone is working on such a thing in CURRENT ? >> > Any thoughts about that? Any sugestions for a solution? >> >> You want SCPS (the Space Communications Protocols Specification) >> software. Briefly, it fakes local TCP on either end while talking its >> own protocol over the high-latency link. I don't know if there is any >> open-source package available but there are certainly commercial >> solutions out there. >> -- > > Correct. That's why I asked about this problem here. > I was in doubt something like that existed for FreeBSD. > We are willing to pay someone to develop such a solution for FreeBSD. > I'd love to get in touch with someone willing to pick up that challenge. > > someone forwarded me this link (offlist) and said they have a fbsd implementation of SCPS. I have no other details. http://www.xiplink.com/ jeff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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