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Subject: Re:  Using SLIP to link two ethernets?
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 23:23:56 EDT
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Roy,

Some years ago Ford Scientific Research Labs had a 14-kbps stat mux running
between Dearborn and London, with a DDCMP link between two TCP/IP-speakers
embedded in the trash. Be advised the stupendous delay dispersion introduced
by the stat-mux protocol does nasty things to the TCP retransmissio-timeout
estimation algorithm. There is in fact a data point described in RFC-889
involving that link. A skeptic might conclude it can't be done, then misght
be pleasantly surprised when it almost works, and come away with a new
respect for TCP robustness.

Dave