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- From: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: SANA-II and ppp, ip etc
- Message-ID: <37842@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 01:36:54 GMT
- References: <1g91ueINNk5@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU>
- Reply-To: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1g91ueINNk5@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU> csmall@uts.EDU.AU (-s90064116-c.small-ele-60-) writes:
- >G'day All,
- > I've been reading all the news, from various sources about people that either
- > want or are thinking of programming a driver for SLIP or PPP or another
- > protocol that will be SANA-II compliant. Just to make sure we are all
- > thinking the same thing, you guys mean that it will TALK to SANA-II drivers
- > but will not be one itself? SANA-II seems to me a Level 1 and perhaps level
- > 2 (in the osi layers). IP etc is a little higher than this.
- >
- > Please let's not mess up our layers, some of you should know what happens
- > if you do.
- > - Craig
- >
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- SANA-II is a Data-Link level standard only. What most people are talking
- about is writing a device driver that's compliant with the standard -- so
- that they can use whatever hardware the driver is for with a protocol stack
- that supports SANA-II devices.
-
- - Greg
-
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