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Article #145Re: Faulty Inet - A3010 - Bad FCS
From: Andrew Gordon
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00
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Dickon Hood wrote: > 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 ;-). I would have said the opposite - since PPP can negotiate most relevant parameters, connecting to an ISP requires minimal configuration, wheras connecting with SLIP requires that everything (IP address, MTU, VJcomp etc) be configured correctly by hand - and no diagnostics if you get it wrong!
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