[Starlink] APNIC56 last week

[David Lang]

We don't know what their routing in space is. But we know that it isn't just up 
to a single satellite and back down to a ground station.

But I will say that since they NAT the connection at the ground station (or 
Internet peering point), and not allowing dishy-to-dishy direct communications 
yet, they aren't sending different packets to different destinations, they are 
sending them all to the single internet gateway

David Lang

On Fri, 22 Sep 2023, Michael Richardson wrote:

> David Lang via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>    > We know the lasers are in operation as they are providing service to places
>    > more than one sat hop away from ground stations. We also know they have a lot
>    > of ground stations around to share the load.
>
> But, is it still bent pipe (long, kinked, fine) solution?
> There are no L2 or L3 decisions being made in the satellites themselves yet?
>
>