Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 19:31:37 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) Message-ID: <9297.894130297@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 17:22:50 %2B0200." <199805021522.RAA03142@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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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
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