On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Cary O'Brien wrote:
> All true.
>
> The only plus on the slip side is that I think CSLIP has the lowest overhead,
> hence would provide faster data transfer at a given baud rate.
I believe that is true. SLIP uses 'remote resend', ie a corrupt packet is
resent from the remote server which may be far far away. PPP resends only
from the remote modem. I believe SLIP is typically 2% faster on a perfect
serial line. In the real world PPP is faster (and more configurable and
easier to setup).
SLIP is fine for dedicated local serial lines 9and probably preferable for
them).
Cheers,
-Robert
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