Feature added by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Feature #305849, revision 1, last change by Title: Provide the Ability to Natively Load More Than One Protocol Stack openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Description: Currently we natively support only an IP protocol stack, however I would hazard a guess that SLES has the ability to load IPX as well even as we have moved away from IPX. The Other Misgiving is that natively we cannot support more than an IP Protocol Stack and the lack of very good open/proprietary 3270 type Terminal Emulation shipped by default. I would be much happier if opensuse OR SLED could cope with another Protocol Stack - In Australia there is an enormous market we currently offer no solution to in only providing an IP Protocol Stack. In my home Country Australia All Federal Government- Health-Social Security- etc./All Banking Sectors/Most all Military Sectors/All State and Federal Law enforcement/Others (Thats a big Market Place) need to support a 3270 type Terminal Emulator and directly address SNA or X.25 or STLC comms. To compete we must at least be equal in the market place! The other mass market world wide particularly in the US are PC's that all Travel Agents use to make their bookings. World Wide They would use either Saber or Apollo or Galileo or Amadeus or Abacus - that about covers the whole World now. The issue all user face with M.S is that they most likely have a dedicated comms server as M.S cannot even load the required Protocol Stack. Depending on which Global System is used they mostly stick to their preferred stack and this could vary from ALC/STLC/X.25/IP/IPX/MATIP/etc..... Enough said - I think we all understand how we can better appeal to other huge markets if we invest in the functional ability to load more than just IPV4/6. I think we need to look far and wide at ALL Industry comms and we CAN do what MS cannot - We could easily bundle off a very very good 3270 type emulator and support SNA AND IP directly without the possible need for a comms servers packet stacking and promiscuous translation to IP. So we have 2 huge untaped Markets we cannot help right now and these are Australian - .GOV/.MIL and internal Banks and credit unions Global - The travel Industry is their varying, but constant use of say STLC/MATIP If we need to pull apart IP coms in the future for IPV6 this would be golden to support more than an IP Protocol only. __________________ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305849