Re: X.75 ?

Theo Van Dyne ((no email))
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 20:56:39 -0700 (PDT)

Our customer Martin Bokaemper says:

Hello Martin,

>
> Hi
>
> [Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>]
> >[Florian Lohoff <flo@mini.gt.owl.de>]
> >> is there any support for X.75 (Planned ?) as X.75 is much more popular
> >> than V.120 in Germany (AOL uses X.75 in Germany instead of V.120).
> >
> > I don't know much about X.75, but if provides equivelent features to
> >V.120, I have to ask "why?" V.120 is async emulation that runs over a
> >sync connection. It adds a lot of overhead, and provides slow
> >connections. Why not use regular sync PPP?
>
> V.120 is used for 'login'-service, not 'network'. For login
> connections (telnet, rlogin, portmux) a async emulation is necessary.
> V.120 (and the terrible V.110) is one possible solution - but far more
> ISDN-adapters use X.75 for that purpose.
> So I also hope that one day the PM3 will accept X.75 in addition to
> V.110/120.

Don't know Engineering's plans, but this sounds good, especially if more
popular than V.110/V.120. I'll forward this feature request over to be
added to the request-for-enhancement list for future consideration by Eng-
ineering.

>
> Martin.
> --
>
>

Thanks for your valuable input.

Best regards,

Theo Van Dyne Livingston Enterprises Inc. Phone: 011-1-510-737-2100
Support Engineer 4464 Willow Road Fax: 011-1-510-737-2110
support@livingston.com Pleasanton, CA 94588 USA http://www.livingston.com