Networking :: serialport connection

can someone give some advice on how to conect a dsl machine to the internet using a proxy Debian based server through the serial port ( the DEBIAN site describes how to do it using the parallel port so I assume it can be done using the serial port.
any help would be appreciated.

Maybe SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) will work:

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~perweij/priv/main/debian_slip.html

thank you very much cbagger01 ,I will try it tomorrow ; I just came from a 4 hour drive and I am half dead.

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