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From: mt@cleo.cs.wisc.edu (Manolis Tsangaris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: USER Level SLIP implementations
Keywords: SLIP, User-level
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Date: 18 Sep 90 16:21:29 GMT
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Is it technically possible to have a user level implementation of SLIP
under 4.3 BSD and its derivatives?

I mean, having something like a daemon reading and writing from/to a
tty and then sending/receiving from an IP socket?

I understand this is not going to be as efficient as the in-kernel
implementation, but it makes it much easier to experiment with various
algorithms for packet compression.

--mt (Manolis Tsangaris)