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From: mbell@cie.uoregon.edu (Max Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: References to Information on "SLIP" Requested
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.040735.14529@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 90 04:07:35 GMT
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In article <BOB.90Aug24135634@volitans.MorningStar.Com> of comp.dcom.modems,
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) wrote:

}SLIP, the Serial Line Internet Protocol, was defined in RFC1055.  A
}performance improvement (header compression) was defined in RFC1144.
}
}But don't bother: SLIP has been obsoleted by PPP, the Point to Point
}Protocol, as defined in RFC1134 and refined in RFC1171 and RFC1172.

Thank you for the information.  Could you tell me where I might be able to
FTP these RFC documents?  I am posting this to the newsgroup instead of by
email due to the high number of people who emailed me asking to be forwarded
any information I received.

                       Max

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