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<TITLE>IP over Serial Lines</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node13.html">The Transmission Control Protocol</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node7.html">TCP/IP Networks</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node11.html">The Internet Protocol</A>
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION003350000">IP over Serial Lines</A></H2>
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<A NAME="introtcpipslip"></A>
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On serial lines, a ``de facto'' standard known as SLIP or
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<em>Serial Line IP</em> is frequently used.
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A modification of SLIP is known as CSLIP, or <em>compressed SLIP</em>,
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and performs compression of IP-headers to make better use of the
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relatively low bandwidth provided by serial links.<A HREF="footnode.html#523"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A> A different serial protocol is <a href="node107.html">PPP</a>, or <em>Point-to-Point Protocol</em>.
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PPP has many more features than SLIP, including a link negotiation
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phase. Its main advantage over SLIP is, however, that it isn't
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limited to transporting IP-datagrams, but that it was designed to
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allow for any type of datagrams to be transmitted.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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