Subject: Re: SLIP to site

From: James R. Fowler

Submitted: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:31:24 -0600

Message number: 95 (previous: 94, next: 96 up: Index)

  In response to Russell Owen's comments about modem connections at
APO let me add the following.  We are currently running US Robotics
Sportster modems on both lines.  These support most of the protocols
that I know of.  We have had connections from Dos 3.0 machines up to
Windows 95 and MacOS 7.5.3.

  We are indeed running only uncompressed SLIP at this time at the
request of one of our users who is having problems with his link.
When these are resolved we will go back to compressed SLIP.  I have
noticed very little difference between uncompressed and compressed
slip at the higher modem speed. To date I have not had a problem with
the SLIP drivers that we use here.  It is from VersaTerm and costs
only $50.  Getting PPP working is definitely on my list of things to do
but it was not a high priority.  The driver that I was testing
(FreePPP) was not very nice about other SLIP/PPP drivers being
installed and these made it difficult to switch back and forth. Now
that the home institutions are using the link I have stronger reasons
for getting PPP working and will move it up the priority list.


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