SUMMARY: X25 8.0.2 : How to disable the pad daemon ?

From: Frederic Piard (frederic.piard@erli.gsi.fr)
Date: Fri Mar 31 1995 - 23:17:17 CST


Hello,

A week ago, I wrote :

> Hello,
>
> We are using Sunlink X25 8.0.2 on a SS1 with Solaris 2.3.
> It works fine, but now we want to disable the pad daemon to allow our =
own
> daemon for handling incoming calls.
>
> I know I can do some restrictions on the adress of the caller, but I
> don't know how to say "Don't use X29. Don't reply to any incoming =
call".
>
> I have searched through the manuals, and in x25tool, but I have found
> nothing appropriate.
>
> How can I do that ?
>
> Have I to kill the pad daemon (padd) ? It is not very "user-friendly".

I have received only *one* answer who hopefully was right.

So here it is the answer :

> The only way to do it is to edit the startup script
> /etc/init.d/x25.control
> and remove padd from the applications which are started.
>
> The other alternative is to change the padd configuration to require
> user data starting with something other than the standard 0x01 used by
> X.29. If you set it up for, say, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF then it will probably
> never see any calls.
>
> Steve

I have edited the script but I haven't tried the other way.
It is strange that Sun haven't made a cleaner way to do that !

It seems that no one wants to run X25 without X29. We want because we are =
working on a "french minitel" server who don't need X29.

Thank you (Merci) : Steve McKinty - smckinty@france.sun.com

 -Fr=E9d=E9ric Piard.

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