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Subject: compressed SLIP
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Date: Sun, 17-May-87 05:00:55 EDT
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> ... Most implementations just run
> IP over the wire (with something like SLIP or compressed SLIP as the
> data link layer), with acceptable performance...

This brings to mind a question I've had for some time:  is there a formal
standard for compressed SLIP?  I assume this refers to crunching down the
IP headers on a link you know is point-to-point; an obvious thing to do,
and it really doesn't matter how you do it provided both ends agree, but
I may have a use for it and I'd like to know if there is a standard (or at
least a consensus).

(For that matter, is there a formal standard for SLIP?)

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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