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- From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
- Subject: Re: Why do SLIP when u more people like PPP?
- In-Reply-To: aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 20 Jan 1993 13:12:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <IGNATIOS.93Jan27103543@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
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- Organization: computer science department, university of Bonn, Germany
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:35:43 GMT
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- In article <1jjj4pINNroi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Cox) writes:
-
- Isn't PPP a much better protocol for serial lines? isn't it also becoming
-
- Yes.
-
- more of a de facto standard?
-
- No. It's not a 'de facto' standard. It's the Internet standard for
- transmission of data packets over serial lines. For a complete
- discussion on the PPP vs. SLIP issue, see the following paper:
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- ftp.uu.net:vendor/MorningStar/papers/sug91-cheapIP.ps.Z (paper) and
- sug91-cheapIP.shar.Z (overhead projector slides)
-
- For more information besides that, tune in to comp.protocols.ppp
- and/or read the 'comp.protocols.ppp frequently wanted information'
- posting in news.answers.
-
-
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