Re: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?
If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise inconvenient. I'm using slip because ppp is a more lower level protocol and as such produces more traffic for the same payload. As I'm only interested in TCP/UDP transactions I don't need ppp. -- Cheerio, Jan Jan Wender - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Universitaet Trier, Germany The man who letterspaces lowercase letters also steals sheep (F. Goudy)
RE: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?
On 16:47:57 Mike Taylor wrote: If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise inconvenient. Thanks Mike Yes, I do. At home I use SLIP (slattach) to connect two other machines (both running MiniLinux :) to my Debian box. Also, I do use SLIP to access our network at work. Actually I use both for that, but since some of the terminal servers I have there do not support PPP I use SLIP. The only real advantage I see with PPP is its a bit simpler to configure as far as the provider of the connection is concerned. The protocol does the work, for the most part. Not so with SLIP. For the uses I make of it the authentication is not an issue, nor is the support of protocols other than tcp/ip. So I use SLIP. As for the Debian box, the changes with PPP and its implementation on Linux over the past two years have been a little difficult at times, but once its working, its fine. The real advantages it offers over SLIP are not very important if you don't need or use them. Performance wise, there's little difference. Paul
Re: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?
I use SLIP because I have been using it for years and would need to reconfigure things to use ppp. Also, SLIP is easy to set up: you set five parameters, and it works -- with PPP, it only really needs one (the phone number) but if it doesn't work, the debugging problem is harder. (SLIP is also more available on unix systems - I run older systems too, and some of them don't have PPP.)
Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?
If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise inconvenient. Thanks Mike
