[olug] Satellite internet acess w/Linux?

[Daniel Pfile]

You may be interested in this slashdot article.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/01/2151246&mode=nested&tid=107

I guess they do a lot of hacking on the tcp/ip stack to get a connection
usable over satellite. I doubt anything will appear for mac or linux for
that matter any time soon.

I'd bite the bullet and turn a $200 microtel pc with windows into a
gateway. You could possibly make it work inside vmware, but I'm not sure
how exactly it is at supporting non standard usb devices.

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:32, Adam Haeder wrote:
> I've got a client who is interested in getting satellite internet access 
> (he lives on a ranch). He's got a linux fileserver that he'd like to make 
> his firewall/gateway. Anyone have any recommendations for satellite 
> systems that work with linux (or are OS independent)? He looked at 
> DirecTV's offering, but it's a USB connection and specialized windows 
> software only. Any ideas/recommendations/anecdotes welcome.

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