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From: Steve.Ackerman@MSG.UVM.EDU (Steve)
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Subject: Which is best: PPP or CSLIP?
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Date: 3 May 91 20:09:57 GMT
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Greetings and apologies in advance if this is a FAQ!
	
	I currently have my boss's Sun3/50 (located at his house) tied
into our network via a SUN 4.  They are both running SunOS 4.1 with
SLIP.  He's using the line mainly for rlogining to our various
machines to keep an eye on things when he's at home ;-).  I would like
to see if I can get better interactive performance for him.  A friend
recommended CSLIP for this.  However, I'm wondering if it would be
better to use PPP?  I'm not familiar with the trade-offs between the
two.  Some of my concerns are robustness, performance, and
expandability.  I believe that in the near future (i.e., probably this
summer), other people will want to tie in to the network as well.  If
so, we would like the option of moving PPP/CSLIP from the Sun 4 to a
router.  

	To sum up my ramblings: for interactive response (quick rlogin
response), should I choose PPP or CSLIP?  Which is better for over-all
general performance?

	Thanks!
--
Steve Ackerman                      (steve@uvm.edu || uunet!uvm-gen!steve)
"It makes me angry that in order to get anything published it has to be of
 0 value to the programmer"  --D.E.Knuth