henry@utzoo.UUCP (05/17/87)
> ... Most implementations just run > IP over the wire (with something like SLIP or compressed SLIP as the > data link layer), with acceptable performance... This brings to mind a question I've had for some time: is there a formal standard for compressed SLIP? I assume this refers to crunching down the IP headers on a link you know is point-to-point; an obvious thing to do, and it really doesn't matter how you do it provided both ends agree, but I may have a use for it and I'd like to know if there is a standard (or at least a consensus). (For that matter, is there a formal standard for SLIP?) Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
budd@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Philip Budne) (05/17/87)
Take a look at RFC914, it is a proposal for several methods of sending IP datagrams over "thinwire".
bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (05/17/87)
There is the Thinwire Protocol, RFC914 which I believe deals with exactly what you suggest. -Barry Shein, Boston University
olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Bob Olson) (09/18/90)
Has anyone gotten compressed slip to work as a loadable device driver on the NeXT? Is there any documentation available for writing loadable device drivers? --bob