[3609] in linux-net channel archive
Re: sna and bridging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jul 9 16:32:27 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: mea@mea.cc.utu.fi (Matti E Aarnio)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:24:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: niemi@wauug.erols.com, devel@vrml.k12.la.us, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
chessman@wauug.erols.com
In-Reply-To: <96Jul9.111856+0200eet_dst.63435-226+58@mea.utu.fi> from "Matti E Aarnio" at Jul 9, 96 11:18:43 am
> Last I heard, the price of the TCP/IP for Big Iron is HUGE!
It still is, but you can get a web server for it now!
> (FYI: There are a few UNIX machines at the BITNET with my
> FUNETNJE software, at least one of them is Linux machine..)
FUNETNJE.. this sounds interesting though perhaps off topic
> Actually it is technically difficult. I have heard several
> accounts that SNA is not specified fully at its documentation,
> and that each new VTAM release that IBM puts out has its own
> "features" ( that is, deviations from the specs -- call them
> bugs, if you like ) which must be catered for, and only way
> to learn about them is by using protocol analyzers, and to test...
A couple of people have talked about doing SNA under Linux in userspace
although nobody has actually been daft enough to actually go ahead and
do it.
Alan
