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From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: SLIP reliability
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Date: 12 Jun 90 21:24:45 GMT
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Dave Kell asks:
   Does SLIP have the same level of error detection and correction that
   ethernet-based IP has?

IP and its transport protocols (TCP or UDP or whatever) running over
SLIP will use the same error detection algorithms (IP header checksum,
TCP or UDP data checksum) that they will over ethernet.

SLIP doesn't include any error checking; it just frames the packet
over an asynchronous link. Ethernet does a CRC check of each packet,
so there is a difference at this level.
			- john romkey
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