Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SLIP on async lines
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.232031.25785@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7414@b11.ingr.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 23:20:31 GMT

In article <7414@b11.ingr.com> guy@guy.uucp (Guy Streeter) writes:
>I seem to recall hearing that SLIP will only run on synchronous serial
>lines.  Is this true?  ... is there something about SLIP which precludes it's
>being implemented over async lines?

Other way around:  SLIP is designed for async lines and is not a good
fit on sync lines.  PPP works on either, and is what you should be
implementing if you're implementing something.
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