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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: MNP Proposed as Industry Standard
Message-ID: <774@petrus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 21:06:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 21:06:37 1985
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Personal opinion:

Whenever possible, and unless your lines are VERY noisy, you should ignore
this "reliable link level protocol" garbage and run TCP/IP with
serial-line-IP (SLIP) across your simple dialup modems.  If your TCPs are
properly tuned and implement the Nagle congestion control algorithm, Telnet
works very nicely.  Plus you get transparent Internet access with full
end-to-end error checking (something a link protocol can't do) to boot.

If you have a PC, you can use the MIT package. Maybe some day an enlightened
vendor will come out with a cheap, single-port TCP/IP/SLIP "PAD" that works
instead of reinventing yet another ad-hoc, "proprietary" link level
protocol. 

Phil