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NetWare Link/X.25 operates in a NetWare server or NetWare router/bridge PC environment and provides services for NetWare products and other applications (including independent developer applications) requiring wide area connectivity.
NetWare Link/X.25 uses the ITU-T Recommendation X.25, which defines the interaction between data terminal equipment (DTE) and data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE) of a packet-switching network. The most recent ITU-T Recommendation X.25 is the 1992 revision.
DTE is a generic term for any network-attached, customer-premises, or end-user equipment operating in packet mode. DCE can be any one of the devices that is not a DTE but is associated with a single network port and is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and terminating the connection with a DTE. The X.25 protocol requires a DTE/DCE pair to operate.
NetWare Link/X.25 implements the X.25 protocol as described in these recommendations, including the physical level, frame level, and packet level, along with several library modules used in interfacing with the user applications.
The wide area connectivity products that NetWare Link/X.25 supports include Novell Internet Access Server 4.1 routing and remote access functionality, and SNA/QLLC (NWSAA product).
For more information about features, functions, and how NetWare Link/X.25 works, refer to Understanding.
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