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From: john@owl.real.com (John Klaczynski)
Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Message-ID: <1995Feb10.140413.26601@eagle.real.com>
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Organization: Realistic Technologies Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 14:04:13 GMT
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In article <3h5m82$tr@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu
(Clint Olsen) writes:
|> You apparently haven't heard of LAN-DIAL ISDN. If you do this, then the
|> routers handle all the call setup on the fly. The only time the line is
|> live is when there are packets to be sent either direction. Assuming
|> that you're not running an ftp server, the line would be free during
|> idle hours. I haven't seen it yet, but supposedly you can successully
|> network over a line in this manner like it was a permanent connection.
|> The call setup takes a second or two.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
BBBBZZZZZZZZZZ W R O N G !!!!
As a lan-dial customer who attempted to use lan-dial in this way, I can tell
you call set-up time is the least of your worries, You also have to PAP
authenticate and THEN... Your IP address has to propagate through the
routers betwixt you and the rest of the world (the routers flush every
so often and will lose routing information to you unless an ARP/RIP activity
is going on). This process can easily take 10 minutes.
I looked into ISDN services, it's cheaper to get a dedicated 56KB circuit.
(which I'm in the process of doing). Without the overhead of PPP, I figure
the thoughput will be about the same as 64KB ISDN.
--
John Klaczynski Realistic Technologies Inc.
john@real.com. 215 Ridgedale Avenue,
Florham Park, NJ 07032