From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 10:50:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08750 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.eu.org (valerian.glou.eu.org [193.56.58.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08730 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.eu.org (8.7.3/8.7.1/951117) with UUCP id TAA04890; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:50:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.glou.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id TAA25366; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:42:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199608301742.TAA25366@tetard.glou.eu.org> Subject: Re: X25 To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:42:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608301531.LAA28825@etinc.com> from Dennis at "Aug 30, 96 11:31:41 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dennis écrit / writes: > > 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... > > > > 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). It's just that I saw what happened in France when the Minitel (public low-end, freely available, Videotex 1200bps/75bps asymetric terminals) showed up. We were in advance of everybody for 5 years. But when IP showed up, the government and industry lobby shot it down consistently, babbling something about "unreliable". Fine -- X25 was reliable. Now we're 5 years late :-) The problem with most > existing X.25 networks is that they're using old, archaic equipment with slow > processors and not enough memory. Of course the other issue is that X.25 > seemed to be a bit too complicated to implement for most......as theres a > LOT of really terrible code out there...... You bet. Also, the equipment was *way* overpriced (i.e.: to discourage personal experimentation) as was documentation. Apart from that I agree -- X25 is kind of like Token Ring: it does have SOME uses . -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kårve or nøt to kårve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-