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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Best modems for SLIP: summary of responses
Message-ID: <3351@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 02:31:28 GMT
References: <17691@mimsy.UUCP> <1989May23.173557.1790@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1989May23.173557.1790@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>One major problem here is that a one-character TCP/IP packet is too big
>to fit in the TB's reverse-path packets.  If you attended San Diego Usenix
>and used the terminal room, its Internet connection was via Trailblazer,
>and it worked fine...

Well, whenever I had a choice between the SLIP lines and direct connects
via the other Telebits, I ended up choosing the Telebit dialouts.  You see,
I didn't enjoy sitting in front of a screen which stopped echoing 45 seconds
ago.  Perhaps the environment had too many variables to sort out all the
miscellaneous effects (routing, muxing many sessions over SLIP, etc.),
but I did not leave San Diego with a warm fuzzy feeling about SLIP and
Trailblazers, header compression or not.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu