ron@BRL.ARPA.UUCP (02/19/87)
I just got some neat automatic mail messages about the internet host table domain cleanup which points out to me some additional silliness going on. Why (this is rhetorical, I know why) are there hosts listed in the INTERNET HOST TABLE that are not INTERNET HOSTS. A host on our IMP, PERDIMS-38, is an X.25 PAD, and doesn't know IP from a hole in the ground. Yet it is Port 9 on IMP 29 so someone crafted up a 26.9.0.29 address for it. -Ron
Mills@UDEL.EDU.UUCP (02/21/87)
Ron, I'm not worried about that or even those Honeybunch and Sperrysys X.25 gizmos there, since the table predates IP/TCP anyway. After all, this is an internet table, not only an Internet table. Having said that, the challenge for the student is how to fool a triple-X PAD into connecting to an Internet host on the X.25 side while fronting for another Internet host on the terminal side, said host speaking serially. Before you laugh me off the block, consider what has to change in the call- request packet and how to encode the IPgram on the terminal side. You are allowed to change the firmware in minor ways. No, it is not a TAC, since it does not speak TCP. It is a dial-up IP host interface for personal computers, but where the interface can speak ugly X.28 in dinosaur mode as well. I might even buy one or two. Dave