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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: What services does X.25 provide?
Message-ID: <375@s6.Morgan.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 15:05:11 GMT
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Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Eric P. Scott <epsilon@wet.UUCP> writes:

	Walt Haas <haas@wasatch.utah.edu> 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.

Remember, ``Point-To-Point'' is not ``End-To-End'' ... (hi map!)

Of course, VCs are "reliable" but not end-to-end ...

/jordan