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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: mod.protocols
Subject: Re: Submission for mod-protocols
Message-ID: <412@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Mar 87 20:54:36 GMT
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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In article <8703022138.AA29794@hafro.UUCP> gunnar@hafro.UUCP writes:
>Does anyone know of software for handling the X.25 protocol on Unix
>machines ?

The University of British Columbia have added a CCITT socket domain to
4.[23] BSD UNIX to support an X.400 messaging system. It uses the sync.
port of a DMF32 and I understand it should also work on a Sun with one
of the RS232 ports configured for synchronous communication.

Sun also sell X.25 for their SUNlink product: it also provides socket
level communication (based on UBC code?) The SUNlink board has some
intelligence and should manage a good bit of the X.25 processing.

>We would be most interested in specific solutions for the HP 9000
>series, but general information on solutions under Unix will also be
>appreciated.

Well, in section 1m of our HP9000 manuals there is a getx25 command.
This configures getty for reverse pad ports. The entry makes reference
to a HP pad, but I don't know if this is a box or just another card
that slots into the backplane. I'd guess this offloads X.25 and triple-X
from UNIX entirely, so probably doesn't count.

		Jim

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