Re: Dual Stack Questions

Mark Knopper <mak@aads.net> Thu, 20 October 1994 01:20 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 21:18:26 -0400
To: Gordon Jones <gjones@gateway.mitre.org>
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From: Mark Knopper <mak@aads.net>
Subject: Re: Dual Stack Questions
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At 12:31 PM 10/19/94, Gordon Jones wrote:
>I have a task to find out information about operating dual protocol stacks
>(that is, TCP/IP and OSI stacks).  Are there any problems or complexities
>involved in running two protocol stacks in one system, and if so, how might
>these be mitigated ?  Are there any ways of minimizing the difficulty of
>using two  addressing schemes at once as this impacts the network and router
>configurations (perhaps is there a way of speficying a simplified "joint"
>addressing scheme) ?
>
>Admittedly, this is a broad topic; if there is anything you can tell
>me about this, including the names of any relevant studies or documents,
>or the names of other persons to contact I would greatly appreciate it.
>
>
>Thank You,
>
>Gordon Jones
>MITRE

Gordon,
  I'd like to refer your question to the TUBA group/list for discussion.
There are certainly several implementations of dual stack TCP/IP and OSI
stacks for TUBA (Sun/BSD, DOS, 3com, cisco, etc.).
        Mark