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From: rsc@merit.edu (Richard Conto)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP
Keywords: SLFP
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.165931.22597@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 16:59:31 GMT
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In article <9012040113.AA00194@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us writes:
>	  Does anybody have a version of SLIP or PPP with SLFP (Serial Line
>	  Framing Protocol) support in it?  Merit ... does SLFP.
>
>       Is SLFP HDLC?  If not, is SLFP documented in a readily-accessible
>       place?
>
>   SLFP is another way of encapsulating IP on serial lines that is neither SLIP
>   nor PPP.  It has never been written up in an RFC, and if anything exists
>   besides the source code, it is probably an internal MIT LCS document (John?
>   Jerry?).
>
>Uh, I think it was described in an appendix of the PC/IP programmer's
>manual ("MIT IBM PC TCP/IP PC/IP Programmer's Manual" or something
>like that with too many acronyms in it). I don't have a copy anymore.

There's an FTP'able version on UM.CC.UMICH.EDU (and UB.CC.UMICH.EDU) in
MNET:MIT.SLFP . Use ASCII (text) file transfers.  I couldn't find a copy
on any of the anonymous ftp servers that I'm aware that Merit runs.

--- Richard Conto
	rsc@merit.edu
	Richard_Conto@um.cc.umich.edu
	USERW014@UMICHUM (bitnet)


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