[net2-wg] IP stack name

Philip Levis pal at cs.stanford.edu
Fri Jan 16 13:39:00 PST 2009


On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Rodrigo Fonseca wrote:

> Slip has the drawback of having been used in the days before PPP was  
> popular...
>
> "SLIP
> The Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is a mostly obsolete
> encapsulation of the Internet Protocol designed to work over serial
> ports and modem connections. It is documented in RFC 1055."

Yeah. I remember using SLIP in 1995 to dial in from my Mac to the  
Brown network!

Phil


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