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From: heiser@bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-dialing, Auto-redialing under SLIP [FreeBSD 1.1]
Date: 13 Aug 1994 17:49:21 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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Richard E. Nickle (rick@vox.trystero.com) wrote:
: SLIP works just great. I don't even want to try pppd right now because it
: works so nice. I'd only play with PPP if someone would convince me that
: there is a tremendous performance/reliability gain to be had. Any thoughts?
Hi Rick,
I don't know if it is true or not, but I've read that PPP is "the
protocol of the future". Apparently, although I don't know the details,
there is some sort of "standard" that PPP adheres to (I wish I could
remember where I saw the article that described this :-) The same
article also stated that PPP is more robust than SLIP.
P.s. I'm typing this across a SLIP connection from my FreeBSD "test box".
The performance of this SLIP connection feels significantly better in
terms of interactive response than that of my LINUX SLIP connection.
Bill
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Bill Heiser heiser@acs.bu.edu, heiser@world.std.com
Boston University, Boston MA