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<div style="" dir="auto">Hi, all.</div>
<div style="" dir="auto">We've been trying to develop a plug-and-play L2 VPN over Starlink, using Aruba Hospitality-series Remote APs like their RAP-505H.</div>
<div style="" dir="auto">It's not going great, and I'm wondering about several Starlink-specific issues.</div>
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<div style="" dir="auto">First, having multiple devices in serial is generally not a great idea for reliability. Can we realistically plug our remote AP directly into the dish, still? (This is using Starlink Business, FWIW.). I know we lose access to the
Starlink app, but we also lose a NATing router and an unwanted wifi AP, so that's probably a net zero. I just don't know what other dangers/problems that topology might cause.</div>
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<div style="" dir="auto">Secondly, we're only able to push about 30Mbps through the (magical Aruba-proprietary GRE+IPsec) tunnel. The bandwidth-delay equations suggest we should be seeing around 100Mbps, not 30. (The Aruba devices are rated for ~2Gbps encrypted
at the site end, and ~7Gbps at the head end, so presumably that's not the bottleneck.)</div>
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<div dir="auto">So:</div>
<div dir="auto">* does anyone have corroborating *or* contradicting evidence of VPN performance over Starlink's particular flavor of Long Fat Pipe, and</div>
<div dir="auto">* does anyone have any positive (or negative, I guess!) recommendations for cloud-managed VPN devices that can do at least 100M and magically work from behind double-NAT/CGNAT like we see with Starlink? Bonus points if it does L2 tunnels or
can run a dynamic routing protocol.</div>
<div dir="auto">* Other comments or suggestions welcome, too.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="auto">-Adam</div>
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