From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 19:29:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06272 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus (pm3-p40.tfs.net [206.154.183.232]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA06267 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA09928; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:28:57 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199704150228.VAA09928@argus> Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:28:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net In-Reply-To: <199704150103.CAA01631@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from "Brian Somers" at Apr 15, 97 02:03:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > > > If nobody actively maintains X.25 then it dies, period. > > > > Who is actively maintaining "more"? Should it die and go away? 8-). > > Everyone actively maintains "more". X.25 is different - it's a bit > more tricky to test - especially if you havn't got an X.25 board :) like i said in an earlier message, i will at least get a variant of X.25 running, and have the means to test it, although AX.25 is not necessarily "normal" X.25, it is probably the world's most popular variant... almost everyone on this list could probably get the capability for a few hundred dollars [one-time cost] and a day or two of studying for the license... nodes exist in almost every major city on the planet, as well as the arctic, antarctic, every ocean, countless satellites, as well as a certain manned space station, not to mention the radio backbones which criss cross BFE in almost every country on the planet [except maybe N. Korea], even where phone service is nonexistant... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2-meter, 70cm - KPC-3 Plus packet capable