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- From: dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
- Subject: Re: Modems, compression, and SLIP or PPP (was Re: Using Telebit PEP with SLIP)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.121600.1453@gandalf.ca>
- Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
- References: <1992Jul22.171145.25307@angular.uucp> <3626@randvax.rand.org> <1992Jul23.125750.1022@gandalf.ca> <3632@randvax.rand.org>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:16:00 GMT
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- In <3632@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
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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).
-
- Oh, right. MNP/4. My mind doesn't even run asynchronously anymore :-)
-
- There were some 500 people at the IETF-PPP working group meetings. I
- only attended the LAP/B and compression sessions. You could probably
- join the working groups by mailing the ietf-ppp-request@ucdavis.edu
-
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