SHAPING THE FUTURE OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
• The same subnet exists at both sides of the satellite link;
• The routers at both sides of the satellite link are 'neighbour routers'.
Ethernet bridging has the following advantages:
• Plug-and-play: you don't need to configure any IP-level settings;
• All routing protocols pass transparently via the satellite link, because the routers
at both ends of the satellite are neighbour routers;
• The IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) passes transparently via the
satellite link, and can be used to dynamically pull a multicast stream over the
satellite link.
The configuration of Ethernet bridging: traffic from a VLAN is bridged to a TS PID
or DVB-S2 stream.
Figure 2 – Ethernet Bridging VLAN to TS PID or DVB-S2
Forwarding messages
• Incoming packets matching a given VLAN and/or destination MAC and/or
IP address on the local site are modulated and forwarded to the remote
site over the satellite link. The received packages on the remote site are
demodulated and available on the router.
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