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From: gottsc@citrus.citr.uq.oz.au (John Gottschalk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: OSI lans and TCP/IP
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Hello,
	I have a question about OSI and Internet lower layer protocols.
I am not too familiar with these so it may be a naive question, but here
it is anyway.

	The question is: is it possible to run TCP/IP and OSI
connectionless protocols over the same wire, where the MAC sublayer 
(an 802.3 network) is common to both, and the OSI protocols use TP4, 
CLNP and 802.2 LLC?

	More generally, is it always possible to run different network
protocols over the same wire if the MAC sublayer is identical event
though the full set of data-link protocols differ?

			-- thanks in advance, John Gottschalk

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