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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP documents
Message-ID: <5827@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 18:41:18 GMT
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>Basically, the only difference you should see between an Ethernet Internet
>connection and a SLIP Internet connection is the speed and throughput.

Well, I might not go *that* far.  Ethernet has a checksum, and SLIP
doesn't, so if you're, say, using UDP without checksums, Ethernet may be
more reliable than SLIP....