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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: TCP for the unix-pc
Summary: You probably should use SLIP (RFC 1055) for the link-layer
Keywords: 3b1 7300 TCP SLIP Appletalk network
Message-ID: <637@ftp.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 18:07:11 GMT
References: <1892@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1909@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
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If you're going to do an async IP implementation for a machine, the right
link-layer protocol is probably Serial Line IP (SLIP), as defined in
RFC 1055.  It doesn't do dial-up without extensions (and there is presently
no standard for them), but it is quite widely implemented: DOS, Sun O/S,
other 4BSD Unixes, frontend boxes from cisco and Encore, SysV TCP/IP from
Spider Systems and Lachmann Associates, and so forth.


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