Imagine the racket! Is anyone connected with PPP over OC3? I'm just curious. I don't have that sort of connection myself. I'm just on dumbass DOCSIS. My first connection was PPP over the analogue PSTN.
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:53:26 -0700 Paul Ebersman <list-nan...@dragon.net> wrote: > wsimpson> When we first designed PPP in the late '80s to replace SLIP > wsimpson> and SLFP, it was expected to run at 300 bps and scale up, so > wsimpson> the timeouts reflected that. When I designed PPP over ISDN, > wsimpson> added language to allow faster retransmission. > > SLIP and PPP were quite... robust. Some UCB folks managed to get SLIP > over tin can and string. Two acoustic coupler 150b modems, 2 8oz V8 cans > and waxed cotton thread. > > wsimpson> Like many of you, I started an ISP in 1994 with a 56 kbps > wsimpson> uplink, and only 6 local customers.... The routers were in a > wsimpson> bathroom over the garage. > > Our first CA hub was in the janitor's closet at a now defunct computer > company. We initially had problems with the janitors unplugging the > router on weekends to plug in their floor buffers. > > Ah, the good old days. > > -- Large Hadron Collider <large.hadron.colli...@gmx.com>