[ih] X.25

Leo Vegoda leo at vegoda.org
Wed Oct 1 15:10:26 PDT 2025


On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 12:07, Michael Grant via Internet-history
<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

[...]

> How was it used in the early Internet?  Was there some static file
> passed around with how to route to something and which X.25 address to
> connect to?  Or was each "link" to other IMPs treated as a point to
> point connection with some configured X.25 address?

I can't talk about the early days. But I worked on reclaiming
14.0.0.0/8 from X.25 gateway assignments in 2007. The largest single
user was a Swedish labour exchange network.


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