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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: PEP over SLIP?
- Message-ID: <sgf7vis@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: SLIP PEP
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov16.213034.27895@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <Bxv6CH.DH6@gator.rn.com> <1992Nov17.232832.29481@icus.ICUS.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:07:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.232832.29481@icus.ICUS.COM>, lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
- > ...
- >
- > Since all PEP (Telebit) modems offer 2400 baud also, I suggest 2400 baud,
- > without MNP/compression. You'll get better throughput that way, since
- > PEP is a HDX (half-duplex protocol) not suitable to SLIP.
-
-
- This is simply false.
- SLIP over PEP moves far more bytes/sec than SLIP over 2400.
-
- I agree that
- -v.32bis is better than PEP for SLIP
- -T2500's don't do v.32 very well (they lock up)
- -v.32 is better than PEP for SLIP used for interactive work.
-
- However,
- -PEP is better for SLIP than v.32 if you are moving bulk data
- -UUCP over PEP is better still for moving bulk data than either
- SLIP/PEP or SLIP/v.32
-
-
- With a header compressing SLIP, you can expect more than 1000 Bytes/sec
- though FTP. That is rather more than you might ever get out of
- a 2400 bit/sec or 300 Byte/sec modem.
-
- SLIP over PEP has round-trip single character or ICMP-ECHO latencies
- between 0.1sec and 1.4 seconds, depending on prevailing traffic and
- whether you are using a header compressing SLIP. Those latencies are
- in the same general range as a 2400 b/s or 300 Byte/sec modem.
- However, if you use a news reader, text editor, or other interactive
- program, you quickly find that the variable SLIP/PEP latency is
- entirely compensated by the much higher than SLIP/2400 speed of screen
- painting.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-