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- From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Routing IP over X25
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.065046.354@spectrum.CMC.COM>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 06:50:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.123440.17671@medusa.prime.com> <1992Dec15.173348.24581@acc.com>
- Organization: CMC Network Systems (Rockwell DCD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec11.123440.17671@medusa.prime.com>
- davidh@CIS.Prime.COM (Dave Hill) writes:
- >>I am having a problem routing IP packets over an X25 WAN using Sunlink
- >>X25 version 7.0. The problem is as follows:-
- >>Using the dynamic interface (std0) in Sunlink X25, I can connect to
- >>hosts that have a different IP network number to my own interface, but I
- >>cannot use those hosts as routers.
-
- In article <1992Dec15.173348.24581@acc.com> art@acc.com (Art Berggreen) writes:
- >Sorry, but fairly fundamental to IP routing, is the assumption that for two
- >nodes to communicate directly, that they both have interfaces on a common IP
- >(sub)network.
-
- There are two different ways to productively view an X.25 interface in
- an IP context:
- (1) An interface to one IP network. All neighbors on that network are
- one hop away and the network is expected to be fully interconnected.
- (2) A collection of (possibly unnumbered) point to point links.
-
- Sun has two different X.25 products that implement the two strategies.
-
- The first strategy is used in the product that Sun sells to the MILNET
- market. This is especially useful in the MILNET context where there is
- no need for table lookups, since there is an algorithmic equivalence
- between IP addresses and X.25 addresses.
-
- The second strategy is used in the commercial Sunlink X.25 product.
-
- The point-to-point strategy needs an IP interface entity per neighbor.
- You probably need to put the neighbor's IP address in the PEER field of
- the interface data structure in order to allow routes though that peer.
-
- I believe that ACC Systems has an external SCSI-attached X.25 box that
- comes with drivers that will do the fully-connected subnet model of the
- interface using commercial X.25 networks with table driven address
- conversion.
-
- --
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