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- From: dmyun@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Deok-Min Yun)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Slirp??? (Re: Alternatives to AmiTCP)
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 13:38:01 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- David Jarvis (djarvis@u.washington.edu) wrote:
- : I have read a couple of messages here about SLiRP being faster and
- : accepting more clients than MLINK, which I use more successfully than I do
- : AmiTCP. But there is only Unix files on Aminet for SLiRP.
- :
- : Are there Amiga SLiRP files needed? Is there a site with Amiga-specific
- : information about using SLiRP? Or is ti just so simple that I don't even
- : need toworry about it, just "plug and play"? :>
-
- No, you don't need any Amiga specific files for SLiRP but still have to
- install AmiTCP. SLiRP only acts as if the server connection was SLIP or PPP
- while MLink directly communicates with your computer. I don't think SLiRP is
- any faster than MLink thou'. When I do some long downloads and telnet at the
- same time, MLink responds much quicker than AmiTCP with real SLIP/PPP or
- SLiRP connection. Only a catch of MLink is such that my uni doesn't allow
- any fake connection to use proxies so I have to use AmiTCP (damn!). Other
- than that, MLink is far much easier to setup and quicker. Good program,
- indeed!
-