Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!encore!bzs From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X Terminals for Sun hosts over dial up phone lines Message-ID: <4966@xenna.Encore.COM> Date: 23 Feb 89 19:34:45 GMT References: <2566@antique.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: vixie@decwrl.dec.com's message of 22 Feb 89 07:23:49 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.15 of Tue Jun 9 1987 on xenna (berkeley-unix) Re: X over SLIP Perhaps this would be a good excuse for us all to look at the RFC for a "Thinwire Protocol". The basic idea is to take advantage of the fact that the source and dest addr and other info of packets over the SLIP line are almost always the same so have some (eg) single-bit way of saying "same as last packet", this can reduce the fixed overhead considerably (there are calculations in the RFC.) Other, similar extensions could be made to SLIP and an updated Thinwire Protocol proposed (or adopted as is!), it's been a few years and it was hardly ubiquitous so I'd suspect the community would be open to a proposal. Personally I always thought it was a good idea given the realities of a point-to-point connection. -Barry Shein, ||Encore|| RFC 914 Farber, D.J.; Delp, G.; Conte, T.M. Thinwire protocol for connecting personal computers to the Internet. 1984 September; 22 p. (58586 bytes)