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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP reliability
Message-ID: <9006171808.2.12619@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Jun 90 01:08:23 GMT
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In article <30819@cup.portal.com> thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog) writes:
>	2) If your SL/IP tosses packets when the hardware gives framing
>or lost-byte errors, SL/IP should be very reliable.  If you run SL/IP over
>modems, be sure to use MNP or some other error-corrected protocol.  These 
>modems are so cheap that it's pointless running on a raw one.

There are other issues. When you turn MNP on you increase (the already bad)
latency of packets traversing the link.

We run SLIP over a V.32 modem (T2500). We could turn on the reliable mode,
but find we get better performance if we don't. 

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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice)