From: Michael O'Reilly (oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
Date: 02/15/93


From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Subject: Re: Your SLIP is showing... (I wish)
Date: 16 Feb 1993 00:31:20 GMT

James S. Vera (vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU) wrote:

: One question: How does the traffic carried running txconn and X
: clients remotely compate with the traffic one would get running SLIP
: and running X clients remotely? Enquiring minds need to know!

Well, lesee. The term overhead is 4 + 2 == 6 byte per packet.
SL/IP (from memory) has an overhead of 40 bytes per packet. CSL/IP
does a bit better. How much better I don't know.

Basically, the figures I have seen quoted, say that SL/IP will use
about 50% of the bandwidth. Term uses (typically) 90-98%.

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Michael