30 Jun
2007
30 Jun
'07
7:09 a.m.
Further, if you're serious about [building an IP
stack for the Lisa],
you might want to go with PPP as that would be far easier to
implement and would run without requiring a SCSI card on a real Lisa,
as well as on the emulaor.
(a) Surely you mean Ethernet, not SCSI?
(b) SLIP would be substantially easier than PPP; in my experience, when
you're using hardwired lines (as opposed to asymmetric dialup
connections), it's also substantially more reliable. (In '02, I spent
an afternoon trying to set up two machines with a short cable between
them with PPP, and was unable to make it auto-recover from all
combinations of reboot orders. I switched to SLIP and it all Just
Worked; SLIP is an excellent example of "too simple to break". That
was also when I designed a SLIP protocol extension for IPv6; see
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/misc/ipv6-slip.)
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