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That is true for ICMP packets directed at the router itself.

Pretty sure that is the reason why he used

> ping across a Starlink connection from the customer side terminal to the first IP end point behind the Starlink earth station

instead of pinging the terminal itself.

(ICMP packets passing _through_ a router are handled just like any other traffic and are therefore OK for an analysis like this)

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Additionally, I would not expect such “baseline” changes in the minimum RTT to be due to variation in CPU processing time.

These changes are more typical of a physical path change, as suggested by the author.

CPU/soft processing latency would look more like additive noise.

I give some examples of RTT patterns in this talk: https://ripe77.ripe.net/archives/video/2250/

It's unclear to me. `traceroute` typically just returns router IPs, so I'm assuming that "the first IP end point behind the Starlink earth station" is the IP address of a router of some sort.

Hm, I understood "ip endpoint" to mean something else than a router (because I am very sure that Geoff is aware of the "ICMP is not handled on the ASIC"-issue).

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