Re: Looking for networking solution.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:37:18 -0700
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar_at_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.