Re: SLIP over X.25

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 20:40

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In article <1990Sep19.112128.2154@swbull.bull.se> love@swbull.bull.se (Love Feuer) writes:
   dvv@hq.demos.su (Dmitry V. Volodin) writes:
      Have anybody tried this weird combination?

   Yup.  [...and then describes running TCP/IP over X.25, without
   mentioning SLIP.]

Many X.25 implementations (ours, for instance) support IP directly,
which (for routing purposes) just sees the virtual circuits as wires.
I'm not sure why Mr. Volodin wants to put SLIP in the pile, though.

   B.O.S. does not support UDP/IP over X.25. The reason for this is
   probably that nobody should get the very, very sick idea of running
   NFS over X.25.

That's odd.  Far less sick things use UDP, like the Network Time
Protocol and the Domain Name System.  They're both entirely
appropriate and necessary to run over long-haul links like X.25.

I'd speculate that the reason Bull doesn't support UDP over X.25
involves NFS aesthetics less than the cost of setting up and tearing
down virtual circuits for the tiny, "cheap" packets that UDP
applications expect to exchange.  Ask for a CLNS next time :-)

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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP over X.25
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Date: 19 Sep 90 20:40:27 GMT
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