Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!homecare!jessea From: jessea@homecare.COM (Jesse W. Asher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Argh! What is SLIP and PPP ??? Message-ID: <1991May17.170053.6293@homecare.COM> Date: 17 May 91 17:00:53 GMT References: <8475@uceng.UC.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Health Sphere of America Inc. Lines: 21 In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) wrote the following: >In article <8475@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes: > From what I've been able to glean, I think I will be very > interested in SLIP. > >If you haven't started using either of them yet, and you don't need to >talk to something that can *only* talk SLIP; then don't bother with >SLIP. Start directly instead with PPP. Read the DEFICIENCIES section >of RFC 1055 and the Introduction of RFC 1171 for a discussion of why. Unfortunately, if you are running unix on a 386, you are going to have a hard time finding PPP to run on it. I've been looking for about a month now and have talked to everyone from Telebit to my unix vendor and no one seems to have PPP running on unix running on a 386. So don't get your hopes up about PPP - you may be forced to use SLIP as I am. -- Jesse W. Asher NIC Handle: JA268 Phone: (901)386-5061 Health Sphere of America Inc. 5125 Elmore Rd., Suite 1, Memphis, TN 38134 Internet: jessea@homecare.COM UUCP: ...!banana!homecare!jessea