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).
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)