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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: Book or docs for X.25 implementers?
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:12:25 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1gt0ppEINNgtf@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1992Dec16.230520.9801@nosc.mil>
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- psm@nosc.mil (Scot Mcintosh) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know of books, articles, or other kinds of
- >documents that would be of help to someone implementing
- >the X.25 protocol?
-
- I wrote a demo implementation of LAPB and X.25 and I found the ISO standards
- ISO 7776 (LAPB) and ISO 8208 (X.25 PLE) much more readable (I implemented a
- DTE and not a DCE) than CCITT X.25(88). Both standards are technically
- aligned and compatible, but the details of LAPB retransmission and timeout
- handling are described in a brain washing way in the CCITT doc. In the
- ISO 7776 standard, they describe the meaning of the poll/final cyclus and the
- rest is pretty easy if you understood the basic principles of sliding
- window protocols (e.g. as described in Andrew Tannenbaum's "Computer
- Networks").
-
- ISO 8208 is over 100 pages long, but you'll understand the protocol
- after reading the first 30 pages. You'll see, that X.25 is a very simple
- and easy to understand protocol, even if you learn it from the official
- specification. The rest of ISO 8208 are lot's of tables where you can
- look at the state machine if you have any doubts about the English
- description and a number of obscure optional features (closed user groups etc.)
- that are not necessary in all applications and may only be used after
- facility negotiation.
-
- Markus
-
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