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From: dms@tiger.ai.mit.edu (David M. Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Which is best: PPP or CSLIP?
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Date: 6 May 91 14:00:42 GMT
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In article <1991May4.051233.7420@telebit.com>, brian@telebit.com (Brian Lloyd) writes:
|> CSLIP is an implementation of SLIP that has Van Jacobson's compression
|> algorithms.  Most PPP implementations do not have VJ header
|> prediction/compression.  Bottom line is that you are probably better
|> off performance-wise with CSLIP unless you can find a PPP
|> implementation with VJ compression.

I thought that the current PPP version for Suns (available on uunet) has
VJ header compression.  I'm running that version, and it works well. 
The performance also seems very good.

-Dave