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 écrit / writes: > >> >sorry to have bother you, the client has just decided to move to ISDN >> > >> >> 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... > 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 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...... 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 and LINUXhelp
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