William Chops Westfield wrote:
> No.  Both slip and ppp are point-to-point, and won't allow multiple
> hosts on the same wires.  You can put as many serial ports as you want
> in the PC, though, and connect one pic per port.  Maybe.  I don't know
> if W95 will handle the resulting "routing" requirement.

Get Linux for $USD5 on CD.  The SLIP driver, if it does not yet handle
multidrop, could probably be changed to do so.  SLIP can be multi-drop,
and I think the RFC supports it, because the packet includes the IP
address of the sending and receiving interface, and any interface which
receives a packet with the wrong address has to either forward it (if it
is a router and the destination is on another interface) or ignore it.

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