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In article <128135@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>>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.

I have obviously caught the tail end of this chain...
Could some one please explain why anyone is trying to run SLIP
on top of the X3/X29 service ? 

In article <1990Sep19.112128.2154@swbull.bull.se> love@swbull.bull.se (Love Feuer) writes:
>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.

To my knowledge the DPX/2 supports IP over X.25 without fiddling
about with SLIP.  I have not seen any references that indicated
that UDP/IP should not work.  [But of course I haven't tried it
myself :-)]

>[Enter Flame Mode: My big gripe with virtually everyone who is implementing
>CCITT and ISO protocols on UNIX is that they insist on forcing new and unusual
>paradigms on the users, instead of implementing the protocols in such a way
>that they fit well into UNIX paradigms. The present implementations of X.400
>are especially extreme examples, seeming to have been designed in a vacuum.]

Perhaps its because X.400 was designed in a vacuum ? :-)
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Simon J. Gerraty			<sjg@sun0.melb.bull.oz.au>

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