Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:50:13 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, freebsd-isp@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? Message-ID: <199603191550.IAA04017@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319030344.1994D-100000@caught.inna.net> References: <199603182132.PAA26418@brasil.moneng.mei.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319030344.1994D-100000@caught.inna.net>
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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
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