From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 13:59:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21986 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21979 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01062; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:45:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608302045.NAA01062@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: X25 To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:45:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608301831.OAA29827@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Aug 30, 96 02:31:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The difference is that token ring is basically crap...not as good as the > other alternatives. The mistake that was made with X.25 was that the > wrong people decided that it was too slow, and they created something > not nearly as good or advanced.....frame relay. The answer 5 years ago > was to upgrade equipment, the passive increase in processing power alone > was enough to solve the problems...the premise that dumping packets is > better than flow control is simply wrong....and SVCs are a real nice way > to bypass net problems and we would've had them in the beginning...and > "the net" would look a lot less like the terrible ratsnest it is at this > point. The way I heard the joke told, the replacement point-to-point protocal they invented as a replacement was ISDN. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.