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Subject: Re: Dial-up TCP/IP (was interactive SMTP over phone lines)
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:29:00 EDT
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Chris,

If TCP is configured to be pretty persistent, and if there is only the
one dial-up, low speed, circuit switched hop, I would think one can
get the IP to work - assuming you can avoid dial-up for each packet!

On the other hand, to introduce dial-up links virtually anywhere in
the topology of the Internet, and low speed, to boot, without a reliable
link protocol [forcing recovery to be via TCP] seems pretty hard to
achieve.

Vint