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To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: Re: X25
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>Poul-Henning Kamp =E9crit / writes:
>
>> >sorry to have bother you, the client has just decided to move to ISDN=20
>> >
>>=20
>> wise move.
>
>	If  only  France  could  move away  from   X25...  *sigh*  With the
>	admistrative, government and transpac needs, it'll be around for at
>	least another half-decade...=20
>

France had a usable network long before most other places...you can blast=
 X.25
now, but you never saw the kind of packet loss you do on overloaded routers
today, just slow downs (which is what should happen). The problem with most=
=20
existing X.25 networks is that they're using old, archaic equipment with=
 slow=20
processors and not enough memory. Of course the other issue is that X.25=20
seemed to be a bit too complicated to implement for most......as theres a
LOT of really terrible code out there......

Dennis
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