RE: Serial Driver for PPP - that runs in Half Duplex Mode

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 12:58:09 EST


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)

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