Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Are Trailblazers good for SLIP 9600 Baud? What then? Keywords: trailblazers slip modems tcp Message-ID: <12036@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 2 Jul 89 03:57:08 GMT References: <219@csis.oz> <37389@sgi.SGI.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 23 Trailblazers, in PEP mode, are good for applications that are largely unidirectional. Like this interactive news reading that I'm doing right now. Or a file transfer protocol that only works in one direction, and doesn't have much back traffic in ACKing. Like, kermit with long packets should work really well. SLIP, depending on what you're doing, isn't necessarily one-direction. Generally speaking it's equal in each direction. BTW ... I was *really* impressed with the terminal room at Usenix. Someone was wanting Telebit to get off their *ss and implement SLIP spoofing. First off, I don't think it would work since PEP doesn't allow equal data flow in each direction -- yet. But in any case, I don't think Telebit wants to implement SLIP support until the RFC is finished... -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- New word for the day: Obnoxity -- an act of obnoxiousness