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- From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: SLIP8250?
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 16:17:34 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1e5t6uINN3r6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <aboba-141192012918@192.187.134.3>
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- In article <aboba-141192012918@192.187.134.3> aboba@world.std.com (Dr. Bernard Aboba) writes:
- >I set up my host for compressed SLIP, and it occurred to me that
- >SLIP8250 may not support this, since there is no mention of comp-
- >ression in the docs. Am I missing something?
-
- SLIP8250 supports it, _if_ your application supports it.
-
- I'm probably wrong, but I know of no free MS-DOS TCP applications
- that do compressed SLIP, so things might work better if you changed
- your host to do standard SLIP.
-
- As for running other applications, one trick is the EtherSLIP driver,
- which acts like an Ethernet packet driver to your application, but
- is really a SLIP driver underneath. This lets you run most free TCP
- programs over SLIP, even if they do not explicitly support SLIP.
-
- --
- Stephen Trier
- Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom
- Case Western Reserve University
- trier@ins.cwru.edu
-