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- From: john@chance.gts.org (John R MacMillan)
- Subject: Re: UUCP 'g' vs. MNP & V.42
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.034646.26340@chance.gts.org>
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- References: <1qX7NB1w164w@beltrix.guild.org> <1992Jul20.052318.29102@zooid.guild.org> <1992Jul23.180658.20724@eci386.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:46:46 GMT
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- |Anybody running MNP at any level with UUCP 'g' should have their modem
- |and UUCP configurations examined! :-)
-
- I don't know, I use MNP-5 (and hence 4) on two of my mostly-mail (ie.
- uncompressed) connections and I see much improved throughput. Even on
- much of the compressed stuff there is some improvement, though there
- is sometimes also degradation.
-
- |MNP-4 is link-layer protocol that retries erroneous packets. UUCP 'g'
- |is a link-layer protocol that retries erroneous packets. Guess what
- |-- the don't get along very well!
-
- Why not? The 'g' protocol would just never (or very rarely; only in
- modem-to-computer failures) see failures. In my case, where the 'g'
- protocol isn't spoofed at the modem, and has to go all the way to the
- computer, that's a win.
-
- |... [V.42bis, MNP-5, and LZ are all variants of the Lempel-Ziv
- |compression algorithm, though most implementations of MNP-5 *reduce*
- |throughput with pre-compressed data, and each have varying degrees of
- |efficiency and ratios of compression.]
-
- It's my understanding that all MNP-5 implementations will sometimes
- reduce throughput of some pre-compressed data because the compression
- is always done; it's not dependent on the implementation, but on the
- data. This is unlike V.42bis, where if the compressed block is larger
- than the original, the uncompressed block is sent.
-