From bb@suse.com Sat Mar 14 00:16:29 1998
From: bb@suse.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] PPP vs. SLIP
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 01:16:29 +0100
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gecko(a)freecar.com wrote:
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> In VERY VERY simple terms:  protocol is nothing more than a specified way of
> soing something.   PPP and SLIP describe to a programmer a way of connectin=
g to
> other computers.  the TCP, UDP and IP talk tell us ways of getting sending
> information back and forth... etc.
>=20
> the best place to start would be in a general networking book... don't have=
 a
> title, though.

This is _the_ book on UNIX network programming:

 Unix Network Programming, Richard Stevens
 $68.00, 772 pages
 Published by Prentice Hall
 ISBN: 0139498761

To get deeper into the protocols look ionto the RFCs, which come with=20
our CD...

Ciao,
        BB

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