From: Charles Hedrick (hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu)
Date: 07/01/92


From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP support & Linux
Date: 1 Jul 1992 17:02:26 GMT

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:

> I would hope that PPP will be included at some point, too. Based on
>doing a lot of netreading and a little testing, I would say that PPP is
>far superior to SL/IP for interactive use.

I would certainly expect both to be available. But the primary
advantage of PPP is the ability to do muliple protocols. For simple
TCP usage, it's overengineered. I can't see why it would perform
better than SLIP, unless perhaps you were comparing PPP with header
compression to SLIP without hearder compression.