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From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey)
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Subject: slip
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Date: 30 Mar 89 02:36:28 GMT
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There's a specific protocol called "SLIP", which is what most people
refer to when they say SLIP. It's a simple protocol, documented in RFC
1055, "A Nonstandard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams Over Serial
Lines". You can get RFC 1055 from the NIC, and an implementation of it
is available from net.uu.net by anonymous FTP and UUCP.

Some people also refer to a class of protocols for moving IP
packets over serial lines as SLIP. There are several extensions to the
protocol SLIP which allow dial-in access, and there are several other
protocols in use by different companies and universities.

There's also the IETF Point-to-Point Protocol working group, which is
endeavouring to define a replacement for SLIP which will work on both
sync and async lines, and should take care of some of the perceived
deficiencies with the SLIP protocol. This working group's protocol
should become the blessed, official standard.
					- john