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Re: Faulty Inet - A3010 - Bad FCS

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From: Dickon Hood
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00
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In message <ant0217150b0XL#k@pharpech.demon.co.uk>
          Dave Roberts <Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

: In article <82e33ec347%dickon-news@splodge.fluff.org>, Dickon Hood
: <URL:mailto:dickon-news@fluff.org> wrote:
: > In short: use PPP, it's better.  I'm sure someone'll disagree with at
: > least some of the points I've made here; it has been a while since I
: > looked at PPP.

[See? ;-) ]

: It may be better but, at the end of the day, CSLIP gives *me* better
: throughput than PPP so naturally I use it rather than the all singing all
: dancing. Rather like using !Edit to MSword for simple text file editing ;).

: If you don't try it, you'll never know!

Indeed.  If you find it better for your needs then use it.  For a novice,
SLIP may be easier to set up (fewer configuration parameters to deal with),
however the flexibility PPP gives you means it is probably the protocol of
choice for power users (barring mdw, of course ;-).

-- 
Dickon Hood

I've now managed to find my .signature file, normal service
will be resumed when Connex South Central get their act together.
We apologise for the inconvenience in the mean time.
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From: Dickon Hood <dickon-news@fluff.org>
Subject: Re: Faulty Inet - A3010 - Bad FCS
Date: 1997/09/02
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