Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk!anarchy From: anarchy@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Newsgroups: uk.misc,eunet.followup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe - USA -} Europe... Message-ID: <4862@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Sep 90 19:30:37 GMT References: <1990Aug30.091435.1982@ircam.ircam.fr <6190@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <4847@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: anarchy@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Organization: UNIX Anarchy, Edinburgh University Lines: 21 In article jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: >> >> As to running tcp/ip over janet, any reason you couldn't run slip over a >> coloured book terminal session ? >> >Yes. The JNT wouldn't like it. What you're proposing is not very >efficient: a better (and easier) option is to put IP datagrams inside >X.25 frames. That too would upset the JNT since you'd be running >something other than CB on JANET. > > Jim Oh dear.. does that mean they don't like people running kermit over janet lines, after all kermit is a file transfer protocol and it's not in the coloured books (not even the yellow and purple spotty one 8-)), does seem to be a certain amount of a red tape factory running here. Maybe the planned shakeup of the steering committes of janet is a good thing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything is hereby disclaimed.. if a superbeing can give me this for a working universe, then I can give him back buggy software too. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------