[133] in Back_Bay_LISA
Re: Serial Line connects....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Alan)
Wed Jan 20 19:14:36 1993
From: Douglas Alan <nessus@MIT.EDU>
To: asonnenb@sentry.foxboro.com (Alan Sonnenberg)
Cc: bblisa@inset.com, nearnet-tech@nic.near.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 20 Jan 93 16:50:48 -0500.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 18:30:18 -0500
> hello--
> Has anyone had experience with both SLIP and PPP? I have been told
> that PPP is better than SLIP, but they never have any reasons.
SLIP is currently much more widespread, however PPP is indeed better.
The main reason why PPP is better is that SLIP only supports TCP/IP,
while PPP supports many different protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, Appletalk,
Netware, OSI). Not as many vendors support PPP at the moment,
unfortunately.
|>oug
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