Chapter 7. Connection-oriented Nets: X.25 and ATM
This chapter covers connection-oriented networks, discussing X.25 and ATM in detail. Although X.25 may be dying out, I think it's worth studying as an example of a connection-oriented reliable network layer. There are all sorts of fascinating details—for example, that the sequence number when launched by the source can be different from the sequence number as received by the destination. And when you understand X.25 you can easily understand ATM.
Generic Connection-oriented Network
First, let's talk about a connection-oriented network generically before getting bogged down in the idiosyncrasies of X.25 or ATM. For A to talk to B, there must be a special call-setup packet that travels from A to B, ...
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