Re[2]: PPP --- TCP bad checksums

Mike Kilburn (mike@conexio.co.za)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:12:36 +0200 (SAST)


> them. Phones line aren't always terrible clean, and all modems suck
> by design, so some data corruption in inevitable.

If your running error correction and proper flow control in the modem
then the vast majority of modems will *not* corrupt data. Digital access
servers are a different story though. It seems that some digital access
server designers have taken the "best effort" concept from IP and applied
it to their modem code :).

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