The Interactive Glossary: Defining the Net
SLIP
An acronym for Serial Line Internet Protocol, SLIP is a communications protocol that, like PPP, allows you to connect your computer to the Internet itself using a telephone line. It is part of the TCP/IP suite of programs necessary to connect to and use the Internet.
If you have a dial-up account to an Internet service provider, you are using either PPP or SLIP to make your connection to the Internet. Although SLIP is easy to install and use, it does not provide the error correction or negotiation features that PPP has. For this reason, PPP has replaced SLIP as the common standard.
