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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!well!osmana
- From: osmana@well.sf.ca.us (Osman Arslaner)
- Subject: Questions About SLIP
- Message-ID: <BunGvB.2wL@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:42:47 GMT
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- We are planning to use SLIP for our remote PCs which are not
- on the corporate backbone.
- These PCs are in the yard or shop floor and connected to a terminal
- server which runs SLIP through dedicated circuits (19.2kbs).
- They will be running applications and also will access hosts on
- the corporate backbone.
-
- My questions are: is SLIP a reliable protocol to use ? Our slip program
- does not support flow control, could that be a problem ? Does a SLIP
- connection pass through broadcasts which are sent on the Ethernet network ?
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- Also, we are planning to use dial-up SLIP. So far it works fine
- only with same type of modems on both ends. We were not able
- to make it work with different modems on both ends. We used 9600 baud
- modems for testing.
-
- Would there be any problems associated with this set-up ?
- Any help will be appreciated.
- Thanks..
-
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