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Two schemes have been adopted by the Internet community to provide links over serial point-to-point lines into dial-up routers: SLIP and PPP
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SLIP supports the transmission of IP datagrams encapsulated within SLIP frames;
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SLIP operates over point-to-point connection; simpler than PPP;
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suitable for stationary systems that only transmit IP;
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supports asynchronous and synchronous transfers over dedicated or dialup lines;
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datagram size: 1006 bytes; no error detection/correction; compression is not supported
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