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- From: karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox)
- Subject: Re: Why is PPP better than SLIP
- In-Reply-To: rypma@waterloo.hp.com's message of Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04: 11:05 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:31:51 GMT
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- Ted Rypma writes:
-
- I suspect that they are mixing apples and oranges in the package. What HDS
- was probably referring to was an X protocol speed improvement, which they
- probably got by both using Van Jacobson's header compression to get 40
- byte IP/TCP headers down to 5 or 6 bytes AND compressing the average 32 byte
- short X protocol request/reply down to 5 or 6 bytes.
-
- That IS 10-fold; 5 x for each "header". But nothing to do with PPP vs SLIP
- without header compression.
-
- I think you need to check your arithmetic.
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