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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:16:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961105121005.6528K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961105012123.13095G-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>

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I just noticed I've been spamming the heck out of -chat :-)

On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote:

> > Don't forget:
> > 
> > 1.  Network overhead
> > 2.  Latency, latency, latency, and some lag, too
> 
> 	Ofcourse, somehow one thing is weird.  I'm getting 3.6k/sec for
> transfers compared to 2.9k by modem but my typing is more lagging with the
> Ricochet.

That is a feature of the protocol.  It's packet radio, so the modem has to
bundle stuff up and send it.  If you stream data, the system works much
better since it doesn't require the acklowledgement/echo that interactive
typing does.  

> > > 	Oh okay, do you know if you can use the Ricochet internet service
> > > at all if you used the university service?
> > 
> > If I paid for it, sure.  But why would I pay for it??  :-)  That's more of
> > a software issue.
> 
> 	Hmmmm, I don't think you really need software to use the Ricochet
> service since it's more of just changing the dial string :-)

And configuration..

> > You mean run a gateway of somesort?  You will need NAT or a patch to
> > FreeBSD to enable proxy.  I don't have the URL for the proxy available at
> > the moment.
> 
> 	yeah, because I wanted to be able to use my Win95 machine
> connected to this machine by Ethernet if possible so it would go directly
> to the net.  Let me know if you have the URL when you find it.  Thanks.

This should do it:

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/

This is IPFilter, the all in one IP filter and whatever package.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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