Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:31:41 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X25 Message-ID: <199608301531.LAA28825@etinc.com>
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD=20 and LINUX
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