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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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