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Re: Faulty Inet - A3010 - Bad FCS

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From: Tom Hughes
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00
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          Dickon Hood <dickon-news@fluff.org> wrote:

> 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 ;-).

And me... Unusual that, me agreeing with mdw ;-) I find PPP to be
a pain in the arse as you always seem to have to spend about a week
fiddling with it to persuade it to negogiate with a given remote
system. SLIP just goes.

Tom

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From: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Faulty Inet - A3010 - Bad FCS
Date: 1997/09/02
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