SLIP slipping away

[Bruce Walker]

Sin wrote:
>
> I wasn't going to ask before, but I guess curiosity got the best of 
> me. I've been working for an ISP for the past 8 years, so PPP and SLIP 
> talk comes up alot. I don't usually post, just read, however I am 
> curious about what kind of application could possibly be using slip as 
> opposed to ppp now-a-days ??

One legitimate use-case is talking to single-chip embedded CPUs, eg an 
Atmel AVR or Mega, or a PIC controller.  Very limited code space means 
that the networking implementation may be limited to just UDP/IP, and 
PPP is way too big, but SLIP is trivially doable.

-bmw