From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 19 07:47:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10019 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA10012 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:47:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA04017; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:50:13 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:50:13 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603191550.IAA04017@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Thomas Arnold Cc: Joe Greco , freebsd-isp@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? In-Reply-To: References: <199603182132.PAA26418@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Arnold writes: > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > Because the whole world is NOT PPP. Some is SLIP - some is direct dialin - > > etc. For example, I run all my dedicated connections via SLIP. Or... > > it's really nice to be able to dial into Exec-PC (world's largest BBS) and > > download files at ISDN speeds. > > I am curious, why do you use SLIP for your dedicated connections? I don't speak for Joe, but I use SLIP (w/VJ compression) whenever possible since it uses less overhead and I seem to have lower latency and higher throughput than using both user-mode and kernel-mode PPP on FreeBSD boxes. Nate