[164105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Khamis)
Tue Jun 25 15:25:42 2013
In-Reply-To: <nwoo2f7fc006tqjg2htajmkp.1372176550364@email.android.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:24:50 -0400
From: Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/25/13, Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
> Is there a realistic way to deal with dropped packets in that situation? I
> would think packet loss could get really messy.. ;)
>
>
As you know this is not such a problem for UDP streams however, we
have not worked out all the bugs for services that run on TCP. Oh yeah
it's messy!!! You know it brings a different set of challenges (i.e.,
PITA, Pamela Anderson). It's a tuff world out there guys....
We are however trying to conform to RFC standards as pointed out by
Jev. You guys really need to look at this. It's easily implementable:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
N.
