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- From: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PPP? You *must* be joking...
- Message-ID: <38412@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:42:25 GMT
- References: <38338@cbmvax.commodore.com> <C0F2Hn.86w@news.iastate.edu> <38363@cbmvax.commodore.com> <43174@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Reply-To: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 47
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- In article <43174@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
- >In article <38363@cbmvax.commodore.com> kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking) writes:
- >>In article <C0F2Hn.86w@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- >(the usual nonsense)
- >
- >>
- >>--
- >>Kenneth Dyke - Software Engineer Internet: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >>Amiga Networking Group BIX: kcd Phone: (215) 344-3014
- >>"PPP? You *must* be joking..." INCLUDE "stddisclaimer.i"
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >OK, where is our alternative! The CBM ethernet software is now ancient
- >and was always dilapidated. I asume you are referring to CSLIP as
- >being superior. I quite agree, but theory doesen't help much in the
- >real world. When are we _finally_ going to see this stuff.
- >
- >Crankily yours,
-
- Aw, come on -- that's not fair.
-
- (1) The Amiga Network Group is awfully busy. MANY things are in
- testing and the hands of developers.
-
- (2) I suspect what Ken's signature is referencing is PPP in -general-.
- Take a look at the spec -- it's a wonderful example of what
- happens when a protocol is designed by committee. While PPP will
- do just about anything you could possibly want, it's a -real- pain
- to implement.
-
- (3) CSLIP isn't superior to PPP. Like I said above, PPP does everything
- under the sun -- far more than CSLIP.
-
- - Greg
-
-
- >--
- > \________/\ ______________________ __________________________________
- >Steven Cobb \ / scobb@ucsd.edu \__/ Graduate School:
- > \ / It's not a job...
- > UCSD \/ ision Lab It's an indenture.
-
-
- --
- Greg Miller "Dad! The heathen is getting away!"
- Amiga Networking Group
- gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com
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