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Date: 27 May 94 11:30:43 GMT
From: jmason@iona.ie (Justin Mason)
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Subject: Winsock reliability (was Re: Trumpet vs. Chameleon)
karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>I have, and strongly DISrecommend Trumpet. I had lots of very serious
>problems with it in the stability and performance area that I do not
>have with Chameleon.
This may be true over a dialup link, but on Ethernet I've found
them to be roughly comparable; here's a rough winsock reliability list:
Microsoft Daytona Beta
| MS TCP/IP (not Daytona)
| | Chameleon
| | | Trumpet Winsock
WS_FTP works works works works
PC Eudora flaky flaky works works
NCSA Mosaic GPFs GPFs works works
XVision 5.10 fails fails works works
As you can see, Chameleon and Trumpet 10a are roughly neck-and-neck
in terms of reliability. This is on a net of 486s, with a mix
of NE-2000 and 3com Etherlink III (3c509) cards.
--
Justin Mason (Iona Technologies' unix caretaker, fixer-upper and disk-filler)
<jmason@iona.ie>, with a hyplan at: http://www.iona.ie/www/hyplan/jmason.html
"Why read when you can just sit and
I do not speak for Iona. stare at things?" -- SCHWA [tm]
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From: sylver@ssnet.com (Ed Delacantera)
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Subject: Irc Client
Is there an Irc client to run when using Trumpet Winsock in a SLIP connection?