From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 2 10:32:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23973 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 10:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23962 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09299; Sat, 2 May 1998 19:31:37 +0200 (CEST) To: Luigi Rizzo cc: itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 17:22:50 +0200." <199805021522.RAA03142@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 19:31:37 +0200 Message-ID: <9297.894130297@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199805021522.RAA03142@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >Example: one side (the 'client' ppp) acts as a master, the other one as >a slave. The protocol is governed by the master, and the slave can only >send a packet right after a pkt coming from the master. Stupid as it may sound, this kind of thing could help improve ethernet response in certain client-server scenarioes. On the other hand, IP isn't very well suited to half-duplex, and to get a decent performance you probably need to flip though Tanenbaums book and see if you can find some old stuff from Hawai to use... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message