🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <82e33ec347%dickon-news@splodge.fluff.org>, Dickon Hood
<URL:mailto:dickon-news@fluff.org> wrote:
> In message <ant012042868S5$W@mozyat.demon.co.uk>
>           MoZes <MoZes@digicron.SPAMKILL.com> wrote:
> 
> : In article <ant312244b49XL#k@pharpech.demon.co.uk>, Dave Roberts
> : <URL:mailto:Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> : > > No, don't bother with SLIP - kep with PPP.
> 
> : > Hey, what have you got against SLIP? 
> 
> : Hehe.  I've got nothing *against* it.. I was actually thinking of
> 
> I have.
>
> SLIP is essentially trivial.  It is the Serial Line Internet Protocol. 
> Essentiall all you do is escape a couple of characters, and send the packet
> down the link.  IIRC, that's it.  No control options, and you're stuck with
> IP.
> 
[Snip why PPP is better]
> 
> 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.

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!

-- 
Dave Roberts

Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk
mrpdjro@leeds.ac.uk