Re: [Maprg] [EToSat] [IETF112] Recommendations on using VPN over SATCOM

[Michael Welzl <[e-mail]>]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to follow up on a particular point here, in the question from Joerg to Nicolas - with a shameless plug  :-)


> - Which PEP did you use, was it PEPsal?

For our own research (on something completely different) we looked for an open source split-connection PEP, and PEPsal was indeed the fastest - and, it seems, the most common - open source PEP that we found.
However, we needed something slightly different: translating not only TCP-TCP but TCP-whatever (truly “whatever”: TCP-RINA, TCP-ICN, … but also TCP-TCP), and we needed it to work in the kernel.
So, we made that - and it’s generally faster than PEPsal. For one, because it’s in the kernel - but also because, being in the kernel, it doesn’t need a SYN handshake to complete before it can start establishing its own connection.

It’s open source, and it’s here:
https://github.com/kr1stj0n/pep-dna <https://github.com/kr1stj0n/pep-dna>

I said “we” above but this should be “he”: this was all done by my Ph.D. student Kristjon Ciko.

Cheers,
Michael