David Drummond wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:



 CA> I think PLIP and SLIP are there for those times when the 'lesser 
 CA> gurus' can't get a NIC installed or they "lose the network" and 
 CA> can't figure out how to get it back again. ;-)

 DD> If they can install and configure PLIP, I'd think they could do 
 DD> NICs.

I would tend to think so as well.  I'm more inclined to believe that
they're for situations where either NICs aren't available,  are too
expensive,  or there are other hardware constraints.  Laptops come to mind.
 Third world countries come to mind,  too.

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