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The SLIP and PPP Drivers
SLIP (Serial Line IP), and PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) are a widely used protocol for sending IP-packets over a serial link. A number of institutions offer dial-up SLIP and PPP access to machines that are on the Internet, thus providing IP-connectivity to private persons (something that's otherwise hardly affordable).
To run SLIP or PPP, no hardware modifications are necessary; you can use
any serial port. Since serial port configuration is not specific to
TCP/IP networking, a separate chapter has been devoted to this. Please
refer to chapter-
for more information.
Andrew Anderson
Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996