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From: PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: What is SLIP?
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Date: 15 Feb 88 07:24:11 GMT
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Jean-Francois,

This was actually the basis of a BOF (birds of a feather) meeting at
the TCP/IP Interoperability Conference last December.  The conclusion
was (as I remember hearing -- I was not there) it works, but has
some hitches:  You have to use the right kind of flow-control i.e.
your interface must implement RTS/CTS handshaking.  Dialing is
tricky (I don't remember the details).  And the turn-around-time
(since it is a pseudo full-duplex modem) makes it undesireable
for interactive applications, but works quite nicely with batch
data transfers e.g. mail and ftp.

-Philip