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From: rob@lafayet.UUCP (Rob Freyder)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: SLIP: Why are people so reluctant to use it?
Message-ID: <966@lafayet.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 13:23:32 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.225610.3505@oracle.com> <12630877138.27.BILLW@mathom.cisco.com>
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In <12630877138.27.BILLW@mathom.cisco.com> BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield) writes:


>    However, it seems that everyone I ask about SLIP seems to speak ill of
>    it, and curiously mostly "heard that it's bad" not "used it and it was
>    bad."  I hear comments about it being slow, but is it SLIP, or merely
>    the serial line?  E.g., what does one expect off a 9.6k line?  I did

>errors that can occur over async data paths.  This is not just an
>accademic problem - real data has been corrupted over cnonections where
>it looks like everthing was going fine.

What if you want to connect two remote systems via Telebit T2500 in PEP
mode ?  Is this reasonable ?

I am planning on using a regular voice line to do this.

Is this at all common ?   Is there a better way ?  

The sites will be running Open Desktop.

Thanks for any suggestions or comments.

Rob.
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