How SCO SLIP works

SCO SLIP provides for the use of TCP/IP network applications (for example, telnet) over serial lines by providing for the establishment, use, and removal of SLIP links. A SLIP link is a serial communication path between two computers over which data is transferred in the form of serialized IP packets and over which both machines use SLIP to govern the transmission and receipt of these packets. The serial communication path can be a physical cable connecting a serial port on one computer with a serial port on the other or can be telephone lines between a pair of modems, a modem at each computer.