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From: jwb@cit5.cit.oz (Jim Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: What services does X.25 provide?
Summary: Switches supporting "D" Bit
Keywords: x.25, services, login, e-mail, file transfer, IPC
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.033928.4861@cit5.cit.oz>
Date: 22 Sep 89 03:39:28 GMT
References: <796@maxim.erbe.se> <3279@wasatch.utah.edu> <522@wet.UUCP> <727@idacom.UUCP>
Organization: Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melb., Australia
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In article <727@idacom.UUCP>, danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson) writes:
> 
> Although the spec states that if you use the 'D' bit in a data packet,
> I have not run into an actual switch yet that supports this functionality.
> 
> This includes some switches that actually implement the '84 standard.
> 
> Anyone aware of a switch that implements this function?
> 
The public X.25 PSN in Australia (AUSTPAC) supports "D" bit now
(It didn't for its first couple of years). AUSTPAC went live in
1983 with DPS25 switches from SESA in France. It is just about to
start a rebuild with new switches from Northern Telecom (in
Canada!), presumably with D bit still supported.
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