should SLIP support be removed?

[Rob Landley]

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...)

I was asking what slattach does; presumably an ioctl or something?  (And is it 
the same setup as PLIP?  Never used that one.)  I'll look at the source...

Rob
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