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Low-cost OSI stack for Linux?

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James Logajan

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May 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/27/98
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Does anyone know of any vendors who sell an OSI protocol stack for
Linux? Cheaper is better; but I'm sure I'll be lucky to find any vendors
at all who have an OSI stack for Linux, never mind the inexpensive aspect.

Thanks.

Jim Harvey

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May 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/28/98
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I have an old FreeBSD cdrom that has an OSI stack section. Don't know
if newer versions still have the code. Perhaps some hacker can port the
stack to Linux.
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Bruce Stephens

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May 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/28/98
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Jim Harvey <wb8...@ameritech.net> writes:

> I have an old FreeBSD cdrom that has an OSI stack section. Don't
> know if newer versions still have the code. Perhaps some hacker can
> port the stack to Linux.

I'm sure I had a RedHat CD with the public domain ISODE code on it,
which presumably includes an OSI stack (OSI onto TCP/IP, anyway, which
is presumably what's wanted).

If that implementation isn't sufficient, the code lives on in a
commercial form, sold by Isode <URL:http://www.isode.com>. I don't
know the details of the packaging and pricing, but I suspect the OSI
stack on its own is available; whether the cost is acceptable I
couldn't say. Only Windoze NT and SPARC Solaris are reference
platforms, but the whole lot compiles and runs on Linux.

I'd try to hunt down the public domain ISODE, and if that looks
basically OK but is missing bits, it wouldn't hurt to ask Isode if
we've since added the bits that you want.

Doubtless there are other implementations out there.

(I'm an employee of Isode Ltd.)

Gregory D Moncreaff

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May 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/28/98
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OSI code was attic'd after 2.1.7
It might be more useful to look at OpenBSD/NetBSD. Someone did some clean-up
on the OSI tree that never made it to FreeBSD

Jim Harvey wrote:

> James Logajan wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of any vendors who sell an OSI protocol stack for
> > Linux? Cheaper is better; but I'm sure I'll be lucky to find any vendors
> > at all who have an OSI stack for Linux, never mind the inexpensive aspect.
> >
> > Thanks.
>

> I have an old FreeBSD cdrom that has an OSI stack section. Don't know
> if newer versions still have the code. Perhaps some hacker can port the
> stack to Linux.

> --
> Jim Harvey, Redford, Mich. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS
> This message came from Netscape running on a LINUX Laptop!
> He who dies with the most software wins.

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