[48] in resnet
Re: How to join a net through NET
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Thu May 27 19:13:22 1993
Date: Thu, 27 May 93 19:11:41 EDT
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@gza.com>
To: jh@flolab.mit.edu (Joe Harrington)
Cc: warlord@gza.com, akajerry@watson.ibm.com, resnet@MIT.EDU, ninjo@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: [46]
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:37:34 -0400
From: jh@flolab.mit.edu (Joe Harrington)
On the other hand, if the dialling is really fast, you could put
dial-when-needed code into the ISDN driver...
We did this when we were using a 14.4kbps SLIP connection to nearnet,
and it worked fine. The first packet took 15 seconds or so, but it
tended not to matter.
The big problem is unscheduled incoming data (such as mail); if the
link doesn't happen to be up when the data arrives you won't get it,
because the phone company isn't going to place a call to your modem
for you. Therefore, someone has to provide a store-and-forward
service, and the phone company won't do that, either. (Nearnet does
it for email for SLIP customers, though.)
Barry
