What is C/SLIP?
SLIP is Serial Line Internet Protocol. SLIP is used, most commonly, for connecting a computer to a TCP/IP network using a modem. SLIP lets IP packets be sent up and down a serial line. CSLIP is an extension of the SLIP protocol, which reduces the typical TCP/IP packet-overhead of 40 bytes per packet to 3 or 5 bytes by “remembering” a number of active connections, not resending unused fields, and only sending changes to the headers. Since a compression algorithm is not used, it does not impair any compression added by your modem, and thus presents a significant improvement in packet throughput! CSLIP gives much better response in interactive applications such as Telnet. (Thanks Oliver and Markus) If your providers don’t have SLIP, or if you are your provider, and you don’t have SLIP, it is publically available. Ask you System Administrator for more information. Existing AmiTCP CSLIP drivers will only use CSLIP if it is available on the remote end. Otherwise they will gracefully degrade
