Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

Sven Olaf Kamphuis sven at cb3rob.net
Tue Nov 2 20:42:18 UTC 2010


if you can live with the rather small mtu :P

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> X.25 is very useful for non TCP applications, especially in places where the infrastructure is less-than-modern.
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> X.25 used as a layer 2 transport (even though it is not technically a L2 protocol, but then neither is ATM) is useful because it has error checking.
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> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick
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> On Nov 2, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Julio Arruda wrote:
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>> There used to be quite substantial usage of X.25 in Brazil, for a lot longer than usual, for POS transactions. x.28 in fact, that would be PAD to X.25, may still be the case ? (RENPAC and 3028 come to mind)
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>> The management of some Nortel GSM devices also could be done over X.25, usually, it would be backhauled over XOT (or in this case, the Nortel equivalent) to the management station, from the devices (I'm happy to say, I don't remember if from the BSCs, or BTSs).
>> Of course, QLLC and running QLLC to LLC (token ring) devices, was the cherry on top..SNA on top of X.25, converting to token ring SNA..
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>> Somehow, I can't get rid of the nightmares and the waking in the middle of the night, thinking about LAPB, and Clear codes and etc., LUs and PUs...the horror...the horror..
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>> On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
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>>> doesn't most of SMS (the crap on GSM's) also run on x.25?
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>>> i recall some customer of mine talking X.25 to a telco to get their messages to the phones anyway.
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>>> same for one of our banks not so very long ago...
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>>> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
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>>>>> Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation?  I had some peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
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>>>> http://www.ram.nl/nl/aanbieder_van_mobiele_datacommunicatie/diensten/netwerkdiensten?read_more=1323735124421760482
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>>>> also: yep.
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>>>> commercial x.25 based packet radio networks, and the wired parts to keep them together, are still around.
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>>>> (the non-commercial ones also ofcourse ;)
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>>>> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Chris Boyd wrote:
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>>>>> On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>>>>> And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy protocol
>>>>> Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation?  I had some peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
>>>>> --Chris
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