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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...)
To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 04:45:27 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: itojun@itojun.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <9297.894130297@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 2, 98 07:31:18 pm
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> >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...

where do you think i got these ideas :)

	cheers
	luigi

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