Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

On 19/08/2026 04:42, rbowman wrote:
> I am a bit curious how it works. Back in the day the ham sats were store
> and forwards and the window was only a few minutes. Of course there was
> only the one and not over 1000.

Well starlink is simply an extreme case of IP routing. Your link will 
pick the best signal and transmit a burst to that and your router will 
be advertised as available via that satellite.

Clearly there is something like OSPF running inside starlinks network at 
very high speed.

Ah.
Good old AI

"Starlink uses a custom, proprietary internal encapsulation and routing 
protocol in space rather than standard Internet Protocol (IP) suites. 
Standard routing protocols like OSPF or BGP cannot cope with thousands 
of hyper-velocity LEO nodes changing topology every second.

Core Internal Architecture
=================
     Encapsulation: Standard IPv4/IPv6 packets from user devices are 
intercepted at the user terminal or Point of Presence (PoP) and wrapped 
inside a lightweight, proprietary space-layer protocol.

Predictable Ephemera: Because orbital mechanics are mathematically 
rigid, satellite trajectories and inter-satellite laser link (OISL) 
handoffs are pre-computed on the ground rather than dynamically flooded 
via traditional link-state advertisements.

Minimal Overhead: The custom layer strips out heavy traditional packet 
headers to maximize data payload efficiency across space-to-ground radio 
links and laser crosslinks.

Decoupled Edge: At the ground gateway or network POP, space packets are 
de-encapsulated back into standard IPv4 (often via CGNAT 100.64.0.0/10) 
or native IPv6 before handing off to the terrestrial internet backbone. "

So there ya go.It knows which satellites are going to be where and 
routing is switched between them .

pretty cool tech. One thing's fer sure. The MusktRat never designed it 
himself


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