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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: What services does X.25 provide?
Summary: Run TCP/IP over X.25
Keywords: x.25, services, login, e-mail, file transfer, IPC
Message-ID: <522@wet.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 19:49:03 GMT
References: <796@maxim.erbe.se> <3279@wasatch.utah.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <3279@wasatch.utah.edu> haas@wasatch.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes:
>                      But the X.25 standard defines reliable data
>transmission over virtual circuits, with a means of addressing, much as
>TCP/IP does.

It doesn't meet the Internet's definition of reliable.  If you
don't want to see your VCs reset everytime someone sneezes, you
should run a truly reliable protocol (e.g. TCP) on top of X.25.
(This also addresses all the concerns of the original query.)

					-=EPS=-