X Terminals for Sun hosts over dial up phone lines

[David F. Hinnant]

In article <DANA.89Feb21094308 at dino.bellcore.com>, dana at dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) writes:
> In article <2566 at antique.UUCP> hpk at antique.UUCP (Howard Katseff) writes:
>    ... I would like to hear from somebody who has successfully 
>    tried to do this!
> 
> I have a 9600 baud SLIP line from home, so I can give you a brief
> summary of what to expect ... NOTHING!!.  9600 is WAY too slow to run

Soon after we got our three Visual Technology X Window Stations (XDS), I
called the folks at XPI who did the communications s/w for the XDS and
asked them about the performance of this scenario. Indeed ordinary Sun
SLIP is painfully slow I was told and that given sufficient performance,
9600 could be made bearable. Not being a SLIP person I have no idea what
parametmers could be/need to be twiddled; nor do I knwo where to get
SLIP for the Sun (pointers please!). I believe I remember being told
that some people (at HP?) had been looking at improving the performance
of SLIPs for this environment.


-- 

David Hinnant                    UUCP: ...{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti!bnrunix!dfh
Bell Northern Research           (919) 991-8299