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I expect that internet traffic will still travel over the network using IP, but encapsulated in the SpaceX protocol. I expect translating the headers to and fro
by gnode 9y ago
I expect that internet traffic will still travel over the network using IP, but encapsulated in the SpaceX protocol. I expect translating the headers to and from IP would not make the protocol "simpler than IPv6", and would not be justifiable complexity to save a few bytes.
I think this "simple" protocol is just to simplify routing, and allow non-IP traffic over the network (in-band control messages; phone calls?).
- KMag 9y agoLooking back at the context, I think you're right. It looks like Elon was just trying to explain to someone without much networking background that, like most link layers, they'd be using a link layer more simple than IPv6. He probably wasn't making a statement about lossy header compression that discards uncommonly used features.