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From: mark@cogent.UUCP (Captain Neptune)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP modems
Message-ID: <377@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 13:14:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: cogent.377
Posted: Mon Oct 19 13:14:03 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 20:48:02 EDT
References: <3013@husc6.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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Keywords: MNP

In article <3013@husc6.UUCP> kiely@lownlab.harvard.edu (James P. Kiely) writes:
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>Does anyone know of 2400 baud modems with MNP other than
>those made by MicroCom and MultiTech?
>Please specify the level of MNP available from other vendors.
>Is it worth the increased cost to buy modems with MNP?

MNP as a protocol has failed to meet our needs consistently.  Due to several
aspects of UN*X that MNP design neglects and/or conflicts with, we have never
gotten an MNP modem to work on our UN*X box.  We went to a different protocol
altogether for error correction and it worked uright away.

I personally think that MNP is not very good at all and should be abandoned
by the industry as a standard.
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