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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP, IP Routers and Named Pipes
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Date: 8 Oct 90 05:44:48 GMT
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	Does anyone know of a product that supports [cslip]?  SLIP is
	sssoooo easy to configure slip on an Annex. It seems like a shame
	to waste it, but ftp and telnet are so gawdawfully slow even over
	a 38.4k link that I still resist putting it in place.

Really?  FTP is slow?  Our experience at cisco (with our own terminal
servers, of course) was that FTP was quite zippy - the sliding window
of TCP bought you much more than you lost from the big headers.  Compared
to DEC-20 to PC kermit, FTP's FTP over slip was nearly twice as fast.

Telnet, however, was quite painful, and I don't even want to think about
running telnet and FTP at the same time.

BillW
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