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Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip


mbbrutman@gmail.com Posted: 2026-04-19 Tags: DOS, Networking, Segmented memory is hard A few weeks ago I was revisiting my instructions for running a SLIP connection between a DOS PC and Linux. If you are not familiar with SLIP it stands for Serial Line Internet Protocol, and it lets you run TCP/IP over a PC serial port.

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