Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Feb 27, 2024, at 08:54, Dave Taht wrote: > One of the things I learned today was that starlink has published an > extensive guide as to how existing BGP AS holders can peer with them to get > better service. Yes, essentially every AS does this. The ones that follow best-practices tend to

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Feb 27, 2024, at 08:54, Dave Taht wrote: > One of the things I learned today was that starlink has published an > extensive guide as to how existing BGP AS holders can peer with them to get > better service. Yes, essentially every AS does this. The ones that follow best-practices tend

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread Warren Kumari
Or this: https://bgp.tools/as/14593#peers Personally I find bgp.tools to be the friendliest… I realize that this thread is turning into an Me too! type thread, but it does seem useful to share which tools work best for each of us… W On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 7:33 AM, Marco Davids wrote: > Or

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread Mike Hammett
The best way I've found (and it is indeed rather incomplete) is to have a BGP feed going to something like QRator from that AS (or a downstream AS) that then performs analytics on the BGP feed. Starlink is unlikely to have BGP customers, so that makes it a bit more difficult. https://radar.qr

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread Marco Davids (Private) via NANOG
Or this? https://bgp.he.net/AS14593#_peers6 Op 27/02/2024 om 13:17 schreef b...@uu3.net: Well, for some basic overview you can use CAIDA AS rank. You can use it directly, or you may try my (more user friendly) frontend for it: http://as-rank.uu3.net/?as=14593 -- Original message

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread borg
Well, for some basic overview you can use CAIDA AS rank. You can use it directly, or you may try my (more user friendly) frontend for it: http://as-rank.uu3.net/?as=14593 -- Original message -- From: Dave Taht To: NANOG Subject: starlink ixp peering progress Date: Tue, 27 Feb

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
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Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> > > You, seemingly, do not have much knowledge on UUNET. > > Of course I don't :-) #N atina #S Everex 386 Step 33; SCO Xenix System V 2.3.3 #O Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto #C Jorge Marcelo Amodio #E atina!postmaster #T +54 1 315 4804, Fax: +54 1 315 4

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jorge Amodio wrote: This gets sort of merged with DTN (Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking.) I have been saying that DTN is a reinvention of UUNET. Hmmm, nope not even close. You, seemingly, do not have much knowledge on UUNET. As such, it should be noted that, in UUNET, availability of

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> > > > This gets sort of merged with DTN (Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking.) > > I have been saying that DTN is a reinvention of UUNET. > Hmmm, nope not even close. > > As such, it should be noted that, in UUNET, availability of > phone links between computers was scheduled. > You must be

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jorge Amodio wrote: We are in the process of starting a new Working Group at IETF, Timer Variant Routing or TVR. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/tvr/about/ Some of the uses cases are for space applications where you can predict or schedule the availability and capacity of "links" (radio, opt

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I think it's useful to clarify terminology - the starlink antenna unit itself is the CPE. With my v1 starlink terminal you can plug literally anything into the PoE injector that is a 1500 MTU 1000BaseT DHCP client and it'll get an address and a default route out to the internet. All of the smarts

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
FYI, We are in the process of starting a new Working Group at IETF, Timer Variant Routing or TVR. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/tvr/about/ Some of the uses cases are for space applications where you can predict or schedule the availability and capacity of "links" (radio, optical) This gets

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/23/23 3:14 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: The original and traditional high-cost way of how this is done for MEO/LEO is exemplified by an o3b terminal, which has two active motorized tracking antennas. The antenna presently in use for the satellite that is overhead follows it until it's descendi

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
The original and traditional high-cost way of how this is done for MEO/LEO is exemplified by an o3b terminal, which has two active motorized tracking antennas. The antenna presently in use for the satellite that is overhead follows it until it's descending towards the horizon, while at the same tim

RE: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Kevin McCormick
My original thought was this would be more like Client Optimized Roaming with WiFi access points. Communication between the client dish or base station and satellites to transparently move client dish and base station from satellites moving out of view to a satellite in view. Kevin McCormick

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
For the people who have seen their US48 state earth station setups in person it is pretty normal on the network level. Being colocated with major inter-city long haul dark fiber DWDM regen sites (Level3 dark fiber path Seattle to Boise, ID which has a regen hut site in Prosser, WA is a perfect exam

RE: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Chris J. Ruschmann
Don’t quote me on this, but I wouldn’t say they are doing anything different than you or I can do and have access to on the routing layer. It's probably just Nokia and Arista and whatever those systems provide. Stuff like Tunneling, ECMP, BFD and VxLan... Think spatially coordinated Zerotier and

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
My present understanding is that starlink satellites with lasers are not designed to communicate inter-plane. Each launch of starlink satellites is put into exactly the same orbital inclination (53.2 degrees or the more rare near polar orbits now launched from Vandenberg). In the weeks and months

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Anton Kapela
(inline) On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM Michael Thomas wrote: the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional >> routing protocols be up to such a challenge? > > If conventional is taken to mean "stock" link-state stuff, then probably no (speculating). > Or would it h

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 19:08, I wrote: > I get that for 1310 nm light, the doppler shift would be just under > 0.07 nm, or 12.2 GHz: > [...] > In the ITU C band, I get the doppler shift to be about 10.5 GHz (at > channel 72, 197200 GHz or 1520.25 nm). > [...] > These shifts are noticably less than typical

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
Appreciate that. Definitely becoming clear to me that a lot of my knowledge here was rusty. Lots of papers on this specifically (Doppler effects on optical ISL) that I need to call in some favors to get access to. Thanks! On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 1:08 PM Thomas Bellman wrote: > On 2023-01-23 17:

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Dorn Hetzel
I think it's also likely that only modest, if any, WDM is required on those links, because the goal in most cases will only be to go far enough to get down to a ground station (excepting some low latency transatlantic use cases I have read might be in the offing), and because the satellite RF uplin

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 17:27, Tom Beecher wrote: > What I didn't think was adequately solved was what Starlink shows in > marketing snippets, that is birds in completely different orbital > inclinations (sometimes close to 90 degrees off) shooting messages to each > other. Last I had read the dopplar effec

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 8:54 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms > are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. 1990s Iridium was a modified version of GSM/ATM with the packetization and routing that implies. I don't know th

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Elon for whatever reason is insane enough to dump a lot of cash in > industries which everyone said was a dead end and then has been lucky > enough to prove the old guard wrong. > > - Nobody had 'given up' on reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX (to their credit) just made it a core requirement in

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
Raymond / Jorge - Thanks for that info. Quoting from the paper, that does match my current understanding, being : II. FEATURES OF INTER-SATELLITE COMMUNICATION LINKS AND DESIGN > CONSIDERATIONS This work is aimed to design efficient ISCs links for a > group of small satellites flying in cluster f

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Like I said, they're calling it revolutionary. Didn't say it was. However the idea that you can build spaceships which are fully reusable was certainly around the industry, but the consensus was largely "we tried, it costs too much, so we're sticking with one use rockets". Elon for whatever

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
Musk didn't do anything revolutionary, besides launching a shload of LEO satellites. NASA and DoD have been working for long time on optical space communications, last year LCRD was launched and preliminary tests using it as a relay showed 622Mpbs, this year NASA will include on one of the cargo m

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Matthew Petach wrote: Unlike most terrestrial links, the distances between satellites are not fixed, and thus the latency between nodes is variable, making the concept of "Shortest Path First" calculation a much more dynamic and challenging one to keep current, as the latency along a path may be

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I think the thing they're calling revolutionary is the idea of those links being directional lasers. It makes some sense... if you can basically emit the same signal you'd shoot down a strand of single mode but aim it through the mostly vacuum of space in the exact direction of your neighbor then

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Jorge Amodio
Solved years ago … https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielaam/92/8502886/8412572-aam.pdf -Jorge > On Jan 23, 2023, at 1:30 AM, Raymond Burkholder wrote: > >  > >> On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote: >> Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat >> comms are not some r

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote: Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the constell

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On 23/01/2023 0:42, Michael Thomas wrote: I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a challenge? Or would it have to be custom made for that problem? And since a

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Tom Beecher
Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the constellation between nodes in different inclination

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Crist Clark
I suspect, although I have no references, that satellite to ground connectivity is probably more “circuit-based” than per-packet or frame. Iridium has done inter satellite communication for decades. I wonder if it wouldn’t be something very similar. Although it would be totally on-brand for them t

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 16:05, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a challe

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/22/23 3:05 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a cha

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have > the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional > routing protocols be up to such a challenge? Or would it have to be > custom made for that pro

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-13 Thread Mike Hammett
m: "Eric Kuhnke" To: "nanog@nanog.org list" Sent: Friday, January 13, 2023 2:06:57 PM Subject: Re: starlink downlink/internet access AS14593 is not new, they joined the SIX 3+ years ago, from an outside-of-spacex view they have just recently within the past 12 m

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-13 Thread Eric Kuhnke
rs WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Eric Dugas via NANOG" > *To: *"Tom Beecher" > *C

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-11 Thread Mike Hammett
dnesday, January 11, 2023 10:23:15 AM Subject: Re: starlink downlink/internet access Starlink has nothing to do with Google Fiber. It used to use Google Cloud for routing (BYOIP) in the early days but I am sure this has changed. Eric On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 9:51 AM Tom Beecher < beec.

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-11 Thread Eric Dugas via NANOG
Starlink has nothing to do with Google Fiber. It used to use Google Cloud for routing (BYOIP) in the early days but I am sure this has changed. Eric On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 9:51 AM Tom Beecher wrote: > I can say with certainty at least one downlink location is not using > Google Fiber, as I am

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-11 Thread Tom Beecher
I can say with certainty at least one downlink location is not using Google Fiber, as I am sitting about 1/2 mile from it , and have firsthand knowledge of all glass in the ground around here. On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:14 AM Dave Taht wrote: > I maintain an email list for issues specific to sta

Re: starlink downlink/internet access

2023-01-10 Thread Dave Taht
I maintain an email list for issues specific to starlink here: https://lists.bufferbloat.net which has multiple experts on it. There are also quite a few folk on twitter covering what's going on there. The latest information I had was that they'd started off hooked up to google's stuff but have be

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-27 Thread Eric Kuhnke
nt:* Sunday, June 26, 2022 00:34 > *To:* Mike Hammett > *Cc:* nanog@nanog.org > *Subject:* Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G? > > > > Mike Hammett wrote on 6/24/2022 1:22 PM: > > > It's DirecTV that became part of AT&T, but now they're separated again

RE: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-27 Thread na...@jima.us
. From: NANOG On Behalf Of blakan...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 00:34 To: Mike Hammett Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G? Mike Hammett wrote on 6/24/2022 1:22 PM: It's DirecTV that became part of AT&T, but now they're separated again.

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-25 Thread blakangel
<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> *From: *"Owen DeLong via NANOG" *To: *"Michael Thomas" *Cc: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Friday, June 24, 2022 3:

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Crist Clark
rnet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Owen DeL

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Owen DeLong via NANOG" To: "Michael Thomas" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 3:14:33 PM Subject: Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G? On Jun 24, 2022, at 13:12 , Michael Thomas < m...@mtcc.com > wr

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Jun 24, 2022, at 13:12 , Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 6/24/22 12:38 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >>> On Jun 24, 2022, at 12:33 , Michael Thomas wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined >>

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/24/22 12:38 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 24, 2022, at 12:33 , Michael Thomas wrote: On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined over the course of several years, and is becoming vague again. This nuance was neve

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:38 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > Frankly, I really don’t think that Dish’s idea of providing 5G mobile service > from satellites is a particularly good or beneficial one and granting them > 12Ghz spectrum for this purpose is probably not really in the public intere

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Joel Esler via NANOG
> On Jun 24, 2022, at 3:38 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > > It’s not entirely clear, without knowing the technical details of the > Starlink modulation scheme whether or not they could successfully share the > 12Ghz spectrum. > > I have no reason to disbelieve their claims. Exactly. W

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Jun 24, 2022, at 12:33 , Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: >> The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined >> over the course of several years, and is becoming vague again. This nuance >> was never well understood in the p

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined over the course of several years, and is becoming vague again. This nuance was never well understood in the public eye, nor by mass publications like CNN. This is a battle for 1

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:09 AM Chris Wright wrote: > This is a battle for 12GHz, not 5G. It's a battle to use 12Ghz for 5G cell phone tech instead of the satellite tech it was allocated for. You could drop the 5G from that sentence and still be correct but nobody has proposed using 4G or earlier

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Dave Taht
> To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G? > > It appears that Eric Kuhnke said: > >Adding a terrestrial transmitter source mounted on towers and with CPEs > >that stomps on the same frequencies as the last 20 years of existing > >two wa

RE: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
--Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of John Levine Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 9:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G? It appears that Eric Kuhnke said: >Adding a terrestrial transmitter source mounted on towers and with CPEs >that st

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Nathan Stratton
I use Comcast Business for my primary at home, but it is so bad that I was forced to get Starlink as backup. I am not in a city, but close enough that there would be issues. ><> nathan stratton On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 9:47 PM John Levine wrote: > It appears that Eric Kuhnke said: > >Adding a

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-23 Thread John Levine
It appears that Eric Kuhnke said: >Adding a terrestrial transmitter source mounted on towers and with CPEs >that stomps on the same frequencies as the last 20 years of existing two >way VSAT terminals throughout the US seems like a bad idea. Even if you >ignore the existence of Starlink, there's a

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Pretty much, with the addition that 10900 MHz to 12700 MHz has for a very long time been historically reserved for Ku-band one-way and two-way satellite data services talking to geostationary satellites. The only thing that SpaceX is doing new here is talking to moving LEO satellites with their ph

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-23 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 3:12 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/tech/spacex-dish-fcc-spectrum-scn/index.html The article is super light on technical detail but I think what they're saying is: The 12ghz spectrum has been allocated to satellite services which have very low p

What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-23 Thread Michael Thomas
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/tech/spacex-dish-fcc-spectrum-scn/index.html Mike

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-04 Thread Scott McGrath
Great presentation! On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 11:16 AM Matthew Petach wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 07:17 Dorn Hetzel wrote: > >> One hopes there is some respectable, perhaps even paranoid, encryption on >> his control functions. >> >>> > Talk about timely! We just had a very nice presentatio

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-03 Thread Matthew Petach
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 07:17 Dorn Hetzel wrote: > One hopes there is some respectable, perhaps even paranoid, encryption on > his control functions. > >> Talk about timely! We just had a very nice presentation about this in Austin: https://storage.googleapis.com/site-media-prod/meetings/NANOG84/2

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-03 Thread Dorn Hetzel
One hopes there is some respectable, perhaps even paranoid, encryption on his control functions. On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 6:41 PM Mike wrote: > You guys are missing the obvious. Russia isn't going to attack starlink in > space, they are going to take over it's command and control functions and > d

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
Further! Here's a page with about 25 dial-up ISPs in Ukraine: https://isp.today/en/list-of-all-services/UKRAINE,toic-14,c-1 If I go to www.ua.net, as one try, they list dial-up services and prices: http://www.ua.net/price/ediup.htm Looks current. The point being that dial-up internet is

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
1. They don't have to wait or hope for a starlink terminal to arrive. They just have to dig out an old serial modem or system with one built in (they were common), find a phone line which will support that, and figure out how to get a dial-up account and use it. Like most of the world did ~20 ye

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Karl Auer
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 01:12 -0500, b...@theworld.com wrote: > If Ukrainians wanted internet access and to get around blocking it'd > probably be more effective to dig out old serial modems and get PPP > dial-up accounts outside the country where phone service that will > support that still exists.

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
TBH I doubt Putin et al could care less about a handful of starlinks in Ukraine. They're each basically one uplink for one or maybe a few devices in a country of 44M. If they did care the easiest/cheapest thing to do would be for the Russians to sweep neighborhoods for starlink transmission fre

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Mike
.. is that a challenge? ;-) Its a high value target. Even the NSA had it's most critical tools leaked.someone somewhere is going to get a foot in the door at starlink, it's just a matter of time (money, or both...). On 3/2/22 5:27 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I'm aware of the qualifications a

Re: Starlink terminal visual camouflage tests vs improvised fabric materials

2022-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Bravo! Data! Mike On 3/2/22 5:24 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I have just completed some very unscientific tests of DIY camouflage materials vs a starlink terminal. Obviously there is a lot of possible discussion that is possible about spectrum analyzers, direction finding, jammers, etc within the

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I'm aware of the qualifications and level of knowledge in network security/cryptography that they hire for positions in Redmond at Starlink R&D. They are quite picky about who they hire. Highly doubt that anything that a 3rd party can do from outside of SpaceX's network is going to gain admin cont

RE: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Tony Wicks
Invade America?… um, not even close to a thing From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:39 pm To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine You guys are missing the obvious. Russia isn't going to attack starlink in space, they are goi

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 15:39 -0800, Mike wrote: > You guys are missing the obvious. Russia isn't going to attack > starlink in space, they are going to take over it's command and > control functions and deorbit the entire constellation without firing > a shot. Gee, sure hope the master password (on

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Mike
You guys are missing the obvious. Russia isn't going to attack starlink in space, they are going to take over it's command and control functions and deorbit the entire constellation without firing a shot. Same for China and N. Korea, which both already have ample motivation already to go after

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Thomas Scott
As I'm reading this - I'm reminded that you don't need to destroy a satellite to render it ineffective - just fill up the frequencies it's Tx/Rx on with so much RFI that the pipe no longer bends. It's not as if the frequencies and sat positions aren't public knowledge... - Thomas Scott | mr.thomas

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Scott McGrath
The Russians have several ASAT systems not all of them are ground based. Remember they also have that grappler which locks onto satellites and destroys them. I think this conflict will be the first one where some of the battles will be fought in orbit ie the ultimate ‘high ground’ the NATO coun

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/2/22 9:32 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:51:05 -0500, Dorn Hetzel said: Yeah, if Russia needs one 1st stage booster for every bird they kill, and SpaceX needs one 1st stage booster for every 50 they put up Yes, Russia is bigger than SpaceX, but that's a tremendou

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:51:05 -0500, Dorn Hetzel said: > Yeah, if Russia needs one 1st stage booster for every bird they kill, and > SpaceX needs one 1st stage booster for every 50 they put up Yes, > Russia is bigger than SpaceX, but that's a tremendous ratio. Plus the asymmetry is even wors

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Tom Beecher
> > So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free > somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t > do business in the country? > There is a difference between a country allowing SpaceX to install a ground station in their territory, and pro

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Yeah, if Russia needs one 1st stage booster for every bird they kill, and SpaceX needs one 1st stage booster for every 50 they put up Yes, Russia is bigger than SpaceX, but that's a tremendous ratio. On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:03 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:59 AM

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:59 AM Scott McGrath wrote: > Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and > they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit > a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds. > I applaud the

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 15:18 -0500, Tom Beecher wrote: > > Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite > > weapons and they probably will not hesitate to use them which will > > make low earth orbit a very dangerous place when Russia starts > > blowing up the Starlink birds.    I a

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 3/1/22 10:35, Crist Clark wrote: So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t do business in the country? 1. Elon can afford it. 2. Marketing value is huge. -- Jay Hennigan - j...@west.

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:38 AM Crist Clark wrote: > So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free > somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t > do business in the country? > It's not like Google is billing anyone for using 8.8.8.8 et

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Brandon Butterworth
On Tue Mar 01, 2022 at 10:35:21AM -0800, Crist Clark wrote: > So they???re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free > somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can???t > do business in the country? Who knows but someone got an imported one running -

RE: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Tony Wicks
knock down a dozen I would suggest and the retaliation would be significant for such a blatant attack on a NATO countries assets. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Scott McGrath Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2022 8:57 am To: Phineas Walton Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Starlink terminals deployed in

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and > they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit > a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds. > I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service, >

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread nanog08
Kinda like sending Captain Kirk on a space launch.  Amazing marketing! On 3/1/22 11:41, Phineas Walton wrote: This is more of a brand image / marketing stunt for Starlink. A pretty ingenious way to market which will heavily pay off long term. To them, this is cheap for how much attention it’s g

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Scott McGrath
Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds. I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service, unfortunate

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Phineas Walton
This is more of a brand image / marketing stunt for Starlink. A pretty ingenious way to market which will heavily pay off long term. To them, this is cheap for how much attention it’s getting them. Phin On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM Crist Clark wrote: > So they’re going to offer the service to

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Crist Clark
So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t do business in the country? On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:39 PM Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 2/28/22 16:17, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > As a practical matt

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Stephen Strowes
Yes, most starlink is via AS36492. They also have AS27277, though I'm not sure if that's in active use for consumer traffic. On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 11:58, ic wrote: > Friends who have Starlink terminals in Europe (cz) go out through AS36492. > > > On 1 Mar 2022, at 05:48, Ong Beng Hui wrote:

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Phineas Walton
Starlink uses Google as their ground provider - Google invested $1bn into Starlink so it’s no wonder. Phin On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 5:58 PM Josh Luthman wrote: > As Google's ASN? > > https://bgp.he.net/AS36492 > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:56 AM ic wrote: > >> Friends who have Starlink terminals

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Mike Hammett
WISP - Original Message - From: "ic" To: "Ong Beng Hui" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:56:24 AM Subject: Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine Friends who have Starlink terminals in Europe (cz) go out through AS36492. > On 1 M

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Josh Luthman
As Google's ASN? https://bgp.he.net/AS36492 On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:56 AM ic wrote: > Friends who have Starlink terminals in Europe (cz) go out through AS36492. > > > On 1 Mar 2022, at 05:48, Ong Beng Hui wrote: > > > > Curious, will that be with starlink ASN then ? > > > > That throw geo de

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread ic
Friends who have Starlink terminals in Europe (cz) go out through AS36492. > On 1 Mar 2022, at 05:48, Ong Beng Hui wrote: > > Curious, will that be with starlink ASN then ? > > That throw geo detection via IP out right away.

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:47 AM Dovid Bender wrote: > > From a quick google search it seems to be 14593. > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:48 PM Ong Beng Hui wrote: >> >> Curious, will that be with starlink ASN then ? >> >> That throw geo detection via IP out right away. One way to avoid geo-detec

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