SCO SLIP features

This release of SCO SLIP provides:

• Support for up to 64 simultaneous SLIP links if no PPP links are active. For each active PPP link, remove one from the maximum number of SLIP links that can be supported.

• Support for SLIP communications initiated from the local host and SLIP communications initiated from a remote host.

• Use of serial lines dedicated to a single SLIP link, or dynamic acquisition of serial lines using UUCP on an as-needed basis.

• Dynamic addition and removal of SLIP links. This makes it unnecessary to relink the kernel or to stop and restart TCP/IP when adding or removing links.

• Packet header compression.
  

• Packet filtering. SCO SLIP provides a mechanism for specifying what types of IP packet (for example, those carrying FTP data versus those carrying RIP data) will pass through a SLIP network interface. For more information, see ``SLIP packet filtering''.

• SLIP gateway services. See ``SLIP gateway''.

• In this release, users other than root can run slattach, see ``Running slattach for users other than root'' for details.