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From: fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP over X.25
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.132446@hermes.ladc.bull.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 16:54:46 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.112128.2154@swbull.bull.se>, love@swbull.bull.se (Love Feuer) writes:
|> B.O.S. does not support UDP/IP over X.25. The reason for this is
|> probably that nobody should get the very, very sick idea of running
|> NFS over X.25.

Untrue.  While running NFS over an X.25 link is a singularly bad idea, BOS
_does_ support UDP over such links.  Specifically, BIND, among others,
depends on UDP.  We've been running a very similar setup here for several
months, and it seems to be working OK.  There were some startup problems,
and there are still a few things that bite us occassionally, but all in all it
works.
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Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (..!{uunet,hacgate}!ladcgw!fmayhar)
              Bull HN Information Systems Inc.  Los Angeles Development Center
              5250 W. Century Blvd., LA, CA  90045    Phone:  (213) 216-6241