should SLIP support be removed?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 19 May 2006 7:05 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > > How big is slattach?
> ...
> > > If people are still using slip, possibly we should add that to busybox.
> > >
> > > What does it _do_?
> >
> > Serial Line Internet Protocol.  Does everything that PPP does, except
> > worse.
> >
> > rday
>
> I know what SLIP does, and used it rather a lot circa 1998 (although
> I personally preferred Point to Point Protocol because SLIP doesn't
> autonegotiate very well or automatically reconnect if it gets too
> confused; nobody's done SLIP over Etherhet, although PPPoE is kinda
> stupid at a technical level too...)

um ... i was going for humour there.  apparently, not successfully.

rday