Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!husc6!bunny!jdg0
From: jdg0@GTE.COM (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP reliability
Message-ID: <9268@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 90 18:26:15 GMT
References: <12435@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: jdg0@bunny.gte.com.UUCP (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez)
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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In article <12435@shlump.nac.dec.com> goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes:
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>SLIP, with no checking whatsoever, is a bad joke.  PPP uses CRC-CCITT,
>which is pretty good (for reasonable MTUs).  Ethernet is close to 

Could some one explain what PPP is, or where can I find more info about
it?  Thanks.

	-- Jose


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