<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-c (Feb 29, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>IP over Serial Lines</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="EN"> <A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node13.html">The Transmission Control Protocol</A> <B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node7.html">TCP/IP Networks</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node11.html">The Internet Protocol</A> <BR> <P> <H2><A NAME="SECTION003350000">IP over Serial Lines</A></H2> <A NAME="introtcpipslip"></A> On serial lines, a ``de facto'' standard known as SLIP or <em>Serial Line IP</em> is frequently used. A modification of SLIP is known as CSLIP, or <em>compressed SLIP</em>, and performs compression of IP-headers to make better use of the 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>. PPP has many more features than SLIP, including a link negotiation phase. Its main advantage over SLIP is, however, that it isn't limited to transporting IP-datagrams, but that it was designed to allow for any type of datagrams to be transmitted. <HR> <P><ADDRESS> <I>Andrew Anderson <BR> Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>