On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> I find the following quote especially significant:
>
> <about Mentat's Skyxpress (Skyx) Gateway System>
>
> Skyx does not change how TCP works over the terrestrial portion
> of the connection, nor does it break TCP's end-to-end semantics
> unlike spoofing solutions, which artificially inject acknowledgements
> into the TCP stream in order to attempt to speed up data
> delivery," says DC Palter, Mentat's vice president for sales
> and marketing.
According to a presentation at NASA Lewis last June, Mentat does use a
transport gateway to split the connection, and uses a proprietary
congestion control (no slow start, rate control) over the satellite
portion.
Tom
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