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From: cccar@levels.sait.edu.au (Chris Rusbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: 48 Kbps SLIP?
Message-ID: <396@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 7 Jun 89 17:17:06 GMT
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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We are thinking of offering network access to external customers via 
SLIP. This seems to be easy to achieve up to 19,200 bps using the 
Annex terminal servers and similar devices. However, we'd also like to 
be able to offer this capability at 48 Kbps. Some questions:

a) Is there anything about SLIP that makes this not a sensible choice 
at 48 Kbps?

b) Is there a better way of providing high speed network access?

c) What equipment would we need to provide this service? (The best we
have been able to come up with so far is a SUN3/150 with SUNlink/IR,
plus the fast serial interface, but that's a pretty expensive
solution. It would be cheaper by far to put a cisco Hybridge at each
end...) 

Any information gratefully accepted.

Chris Rusbridge

Academic Computing Service Manager, SA Institute of Technology
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