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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
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Subject: support of iso networking
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<<On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:40:58 -0600, "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net> said:

> Has anyone done work to incorporate the ISO networking code
> into FreeBSD? This has been done for NetBSD. It is a required
> component if one wishes to natively support ISO based protocols
> such as IS-IS.

For the limited value that OSI protocols have today, it is a much
better use of resources to simply integrate the protocol stack into
the application.  IIRC, IS-IS runs directly on top of CLNP, so all of
the ISO-TP and TCP-over-CLNP stuff is irrelevant to it.

We chose a long time ago to drop support for OSI protocols because
the network stack was evolving significantly and nobody wanted to
carry that deadweight around.

-GAWollman


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