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From: mah@hpuviea.UUCP (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Socket to X.25 Gateway?
Message-ID: <939@hpuviea.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 00:30:41 GMT
References: <416@tdmfed.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Vienna,Austria
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From article <416@tdmfed.UUCP>, by rbr@tdmfed.UUCP (Rick Rump):
> Hello,
> We have a customer developing a Unix-based application which must communicate
> over X.25 to host applications.  Since there are several different Unix

Poor guys.

> machines involved in the solution (not all with compatible X.25 programmatic
> interfaces) I was wondering if anyone knew of a TCP/IP to X.25 Gateway
> product that documented the interface, so that a socket interface on the 
> Unix system could access X.25 packets?  This, it seems to me, would keep the
> customer's development interface standard (TCP/IP sockets) and let an

If you get an HP 9000/800 series machine with 'native' X25 access, 
you can use X25 VC's via sockets. It's just another adress family (AF_X25).

> external box handle the X.25 interface. (Ethernet TCP/IP to X.25)

Makes a fine gateway, too.

-michael
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