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In article <BOB.90Sep19164020@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>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.]
	[ and doesn't quite answer the original question either]

>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.
This is also what B.O.S. does, more or less. Bull's OSes initially treated
IP/X25 (DDN/X25 more or less) as point to point links. B.O.S. now treats the
X25 interface as a net through which you must route packets to reach the other machines...

>   B.O.S. does not support UDP/IP over X.25.
>
>That's odd.
and untrue, as Frank Mayhar has already stated.

Now for WHY one would like to use SLIP over an X25 link.

I'll use my own situation as an example.

I've got a Mac at home, a modem, and the software neccesary to use SLIP. I'd
like to be able to connect to the machines at work from time to time, but all
the access points are on TRANSPAC (the french national X25 carrier). Right now
I use a terminal emulation program to log on, but I'd rather have an IP link.
The major problem seems to be that B.O.S.'s X3/X29 interface uses one
line-discipline, and SLIP uses another. Trying to use both blows my
connection.

Now I know that this is ugly, but wouldn't it be nice if it worked?

Pat
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