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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: PEP over SLIP?
- Message-ID: <BOB.92Nov18175532@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:55:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: volitans.BOB.92Nov18175532
- References: <1992Nov16.213034.27895@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- <1992Nov18.041109.17680@uxmail.ust.hk>
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- In-Reply-To: coggs@Cogwheel.COM's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04: 11:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.041109.17680@uxmail.ust.hk> coggs@Cogwheel.COM (Bob Coggeshall) writes:
- In article <1992Nov16.213034.27895@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, ssmith@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Stephen Smith) writes:
- Is it possible to use SLIP over a PEP connection?
-
- It'll run but practical performance will suffer because PEP is not
- a symmetric protcol. ie) it gives you gobs of bandwidth in only one
- direction at a time, and the modems must renegotiate to change the
- direction. This might not cause you much problem if the majority of
- your traffic is in one direction, but with an arbitrary IP link
- between to LANs, you can't really predict that.
-
- Even with only a single FTP stream traversing the link in one
- direction, the returning TCP ACKs (even VJ-compressed) usually require
- a large PEP packet, and thus trigger a carrier turnaround.
- Performance (both throughput and latency) degrades under increased
- offered load much more catastrophically with PEP than with V.32bis.
-
- We recommend that people use PEP or TurboPEP for their PPP or SLIP
- connections only in those situations where the modems are unable to
- hold the line with a standard full-duplex carrier.
-
- IMHOP, You are better off to run V.32
-
- or V.32bis, or any of the true full-duplex pre-V.fast hopefuls.
-