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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Modems, compression, and SLIP or PPP (was Re: Using Telebit PEP with SLIP)
- Message-ID: <nkofvq4@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <cluther.711678266@morticia> <3619@randvax.rand.org> <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:29:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp>, jas@angular.uucp (Jim Shankland) writes:
- >
- > >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?
-
-
- Use both cslip or VJ-compression and v.42bis. They do different things
- and are quite complimentary. VJ-compression shrinks the 40 byte TCP/IP
- header to 3-5, which is much more than the factor of 2-4 that v.42bis
- does on the overall data stream. VJ-compression radically reduces
- latency for interactive applications such as `rlogin` or `telnet`.
- V.42bis on the other hand significantly improves throughput by
- compressing everything by up to 4X.
-
- Please note that on precompressed data (as in `rcp` or `ftp`), v.42bis
- does not seem to do any good (or harm), while VJ-compression always
- shaves the 40-Byte headers. When moving data, 40 bytes out of an MTU
- of 256 or 512 is not great, but it helps.
-
- PPP is trendier, more automagic, potentially self-configuring, and
- potentially faster if you buy Morning Star's or others' hardware, but
- SLIP is more common. Use what you have available and can afford.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-