Distributed Objects over SLIP

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2 total messages Started by Paul Tognato-Haddad Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:07

#1527

Author: Paul Tognato-Haddad
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:07

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Simple question is it possible to run an app that uses Distributed Objects  
over a SLIP conection?

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Re: Distributed Objects over SLIP

#1525

Author: Bob Olson
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:51

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In article <1992Oct15.110731.3848@arizona.edu> paul@nextus.tucson.az.us (Paul  
Tognato-Haddad) writes:
> Simple question is it possible to run an app that uses Distributed Objects  
> over a SLIP conection?

Yes, but the performance is really bad.  There appears to be a lot of protocol  
going on that SLIP deals badly with. My simple benchmark involved passing 108  
byte packets between a client and server, and timing the overall throughput. 

With the client and server on the same machine, I got a throughput of about  
5KBytes/sec. Over the SLIP line, I got 27 BYTES/sec (!). There was an average  
of 4 seconds per packet. 

So much for the remote mail-reader using distributed objects over SLIP...
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   Bob Olson   -*-   olson@mcs.anl.gov   -*-   Argonne National Laboratory
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