should SLIP support be removed?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 19 May 2006 5:16 pm, Andy Green wrote:
> > Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:22 am, Andy Green wrote:
> > >> Looks like you might as well optimize HWSLIP stuff out.
> > >>
> > >> SLIP works fine without it with net-tools slattach and busybox ifconfig.
> > >
> > > How big is slattach?
> >
> > # ll `which slattach`
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14720 May  2 08:53 /usr/bin/slattach
> >
> > This is ARM.
> >
> > -Andy
>
> If people are still using slip, possibly we should add that to busybox.
>
> What does it _do_?

Serial Line Internet Protocol.  Does everything that PPP does, except
worse.

rday