Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!bellcore!faline!karn From: karn@faline.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Timewarps, virtual-cirkosis and other twitches Summary: solution to Virtual Cirkosis Message-ID: <1635@faline.bellcore.com> Date: 17 Dec 87 01:27:42 GMT References: <8712151436.aa15545@Huey.UDEL.EDU> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 18 The solution to the problems Dave describes seems awfully obvious: JUNK X.25!! Valuable computer networking people like Dave Mills have enough important problems to solve without wasting time on artificial ones like limits on the number of virtual circuits a network interface will support. When we (Bellcore) came up on the ARPANET, we had a choice between X.25 and 1822/HDH. I chose the latter and I've never had cause to regret it. If people had X.25 DTEs that they REALLY have to have communicate through the ARPANET, this should have been done with separate end-to-end boxes that encapsulate X.25 inside 1822 messages. The decision to inflict X.25 on the rest of us innocent Internetters is still utterly incomprehensible to me. Phil