Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 04:45:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: itojun@itojun.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) Message-ID: <199805030245.EAA03769@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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