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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modems, compression, and SLIP or PPP (was Re: Using Telebit PEP with SLIP)
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:13:50 GMT
- References: <3619@randvax.rand.org> <BOB.92Jul21000352@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp> jas%angular.UUCP@ingres.com (Jim Shankland) writes:
- >In article <BOB.92Jul21000352@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
- >[Lots of interesting stuff, the upshot of which is:]
- >
- >>Right. Use TurboPEP in links like Pakistan to Ecuador, but use
- >>V.32bis in most of the USA.
- >
- >Thanks; that's very useful information. Does anybody have any thoughts
- >about SLIP with v.42bis and V-J header compression? Does v.42bis
- >eliminate the need for V-J header compression? Or vice versa?
- >Would it be a mistake to use both? And what about PPP vs. SLIP?
-
- No. V-J header compression only affects TCP/IP's protocol-specific
- information, which it compresses much more than any general compression
- algorithm like V.42bis. The latter will do a good job of compressing the
- rest, if it is compressible. So the two are complementary.
-
- Some modems seem to have increased latency when V.42bis is used, so there
- might be some specific applications where turning it off would increase
- performance with such modems. But generally V.42bis is a win with SLIP or
- PPP. When in doubt, try it both ways /with your particular application(s)/.
- Simple benchmarks are useless in this case.
-
- PPP has a higher "overhead" than SLIP, since it adds its own header and
- checksum. The checksumming and more robust framing is of only marginal
- use when the connection is near-error-free, such as with V.42 or MNP4, and
- does add a small amount of latency. But there are other aspects of PPP
- which makes it useful: it allows for better security and greater
- flexibility for dialup use, and it allows for the selective escaping of
- control characters (such as XON/XOFF)--quite useful when going through a
- switch or in situations where hardware flow-control isn't possible.
- And it supports non-IP protocols.
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
-