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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Modems, compression, and SLIP or PPP (was Re: Using Telebit PEP with SLIP)
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 13:31:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp> <3626@randvax.rand.org> <1992Jul23.125750.1022@gandalf.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul23.125750.1022@gandalf.ca> dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) writes:
- >You should turn off MNP4 and/or V.42 when running PPP.
-
- Why? There is an obvious loss of throughput, since start and stop bits
- will no longer be stripped. Granted, some modems might have lower
- latency in this configuration, but some don't. And the loss of end-to-
- end flow-control can be a problem when the DTE datarate doesn't match
- the DCE datarate (likely with V.32bis since 14.4K serial interfaces
- might be a bit hard to arrange).
-
- >Also, PPP can
- >optionally turn off the address and control fields.
-
- Yup. Saves a whole two bytes per packet, but it adds up. I forgot to
- mention it.
-
- >Compression over
- >PPP was a hot topic at the IETF-PPP meeting last week in Boston.
-
- Care to tell us more?
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
-