The Silicon Graphics implementation provides both RFC 1144 data compression and its own proprietary data compression, which compresses header framing, checksum, and TCP/IP information to three bytes. SLIP is part of the eoe2 software subsystem, and is installed via the eoe2.sw.slip package. Use the versions(1M) command to check to see if you have SLIP installed on your system.
PPP offers substantially the same features as SLIP, but is more flexible and robust. In general, PPP is preferable to SLIP. However, you will have to use SLIP if the system you want to connect to supports SLIP and not PPP.
PPP is part of the eoe2 software subsystem, and is installed via the eoe2.sw.ppp package. Use the versions(1M) command to check to see if you have PPP installed on your system.
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