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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "vanitha@agilis.st.com.sg" <vanitha@agilis.st.com.sg>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Serial Driver for PPP - that runs in Half Duplex Mode
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:53:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092847985.26056.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01C48517.98874380.vanitha@agilis.st.com.sg>

On Mer, 2004-08-18 at 12:36, Vanitha Ramaswami wrote:
> Hello,
>     Thanks for your mail. Can you let me know what are the other protocols that performs better than PPP ?

That will depend upon your link quality. If you drop a lot of frames
then a link layer reliable protocol or FEC based protocol will do
better. We used AX.25 (LAP-B with addressing). On radios that do their
own reliability/error handling IP is often just fine (as with 802.11)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-18 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-18 11:36 Serial Driver for PPP - that runs in Half Duplex Mode Vanitha Ramaswami
2004-08-18 16:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2004-08-17 10:56 Vanitha Ramaswami
2004-08-17 14:11 ` Alan Cox

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