Re: Re: Free S/wan over satellite

["Chuck Swiger" <chuck () codefab com>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:26:11 -0500, Ben Swanner wrote:
> Set up on Linux over vsat connection and speed dropped by a factor of ten.
> Any ideas?

Not sure this has much to do with firewalls per se, but you are aware that
satellite-based communications have a relatively high latency (and some a high 
bandwidth * latency cross-product, which corresponds to a lot of data being
"en transit") compared to more common types of connections, right?

You'll need to _measure_ bandwidth and latency seperately in order to see
what's really going on.  Some systems or protocols make assumptions about low
latency for out-of-band signaling and/or error reporting, which doesn't work
so well under circumstances where those assumptions do not hold true.

-Chuck

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