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From: dupont@inria.inria.fr (Francis Dupont)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Routing thru X.25 from a cisco to a Sun?
Summary: New Sun IP over X.25
Message-ID: <1869@inria.inria.fr>
Date: 2 Sep 90 13:05:25 GMT
References: <25073@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Aug24.010953.15272@mel.dit.csiro.au> <989@ecrc.de>
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
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In article <989@ecrc.de>, dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton) writes:
> I think most of Europe (at least Germany at any rate)
> use the tunnel software from Julian instead of that from Sun.

Now Sun France provides a new IP over X.25 for SunLink 6.0.
The virtual circuit management program is named "x25mgr" (not "x25manager")
and supports :
 * static virtual circuits carrying IP traffic (same than old "x25manager")
 * dynamic virtual circuits carrying IP traffic (new, hardly needed in
France for Transpac, in place of "tunnel software").
 * dynamic virtual circuits carrying IP traffic over DDN network
 * dynamic virtual circuits carrying OSI/CLNP traffic over X.25

For dynamic VC, the interface is not a Point-To-Point interface
and routing implications are well described in docs.
Shutdown after idle time is provided for dynamic VC, etc ...

This is a big improvement of old "x25manager" software.
Sun France gives it to all sites with SunLink (SunNet ?) X.25 6.0 licence,
but I believe it is available in USA.

Francis.Dupont@inria.fr