Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Setting Up SLIP

SLIP is used by some ISPs who don't support PPP (a rarity these days). You may also find SLIP supported by some online services that don't use the Internet, such as bank access programs and stock trading. In the past, SLIP was usually compiled into the Linux kernel, as was a modification of SLIP called CSLIP (Compressed SLIP). With Red Hat Linux, however, SLIP support is supplied as a loadable kernel module.

To use SLIP, you need to dedicate a port to it. This means that the port cannot be used by other applications. This is necessary because of the way SLIP handles ports, which causes conflicts if shared with other programs.

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If you want SLIP installed in your kernel, you need to rebuild the kernel. See Chapter ...