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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 RGireyev@bellind.com wrote:

> I have a stupid question. If SLIP/CSLIP is faster than PPP but
> only supports TCP/IP while PPP supports the whole world
> why configure PPP to access the internet which is strictly TCP/IP?
> Wouldn't SLIP/CSLIP be better?
> I'm very ignorant so be gentle.
> 
> >Of course, all of this is explained in the man page for ppp...

Basically :)

Aside from other nice things, ppp can do stuff like PAP and CHAP
authentication, link statistics negotiation (eg mru / mtu), IP address
negotiation, etc, etc.

Basically this is vs. SLIP where you *NEED* to have something to interpret
what the server has dumped you as your IP. IE this is what we have:

intellect:~$ slip

(blah)

My IP is 203.19.29.3 <-- server IP
Your IP is 203.19.29.253 <-- your IP

And the script has to interpret this and set up the SLIP interface with
the right parameters.

So PPP is much nicer from the point of "normal" users running Windows 95
or something like that, they just put in their name / password, specify
PPP in dialup adaptor and the server authenticates them, negotiates all
the link information and brings the link up all by itself.

But (*grin*) for permanent connections or connections between boxes via
serial I still like to use SLIP. But this is for connections I *KNOW* the
IPs of and that won't change all that much.

Have fun,

Adrian.