tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (07/01/87)
Boston University is considering ordering 2 of these to triple our
uucp lines into the campus. We'll be hooking them up to either a Sun
3/180S or Sun 3/280S.
Is the compression option worth the extra dollars?
Is anyone using these for uucp? On Sun 3's?
Any problems or comments about them?
Please mail me replies and requests for summaries (RFSum). If there
are too many mail RFSums to respond to privately, I will summarize to
comp.dcom.modems.
thanx -len
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UUCP: {}!harvard!bu-cs!tower INTERNET: tower@bu-cs.bu.edudavidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (07/02/87)
The major benefit of MNP is not thruput (at least until level 5) but
reliability. For uucp this means having the login line in L.sys *work*
on a noisy line. Interactively it means not get random characters every
few seconds. What level MNP do your contacts run? There's no reason to
run level 5 if they only go level 3.
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bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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