  We report evidence of type-I X-ray bursting activity from the transient 1RXS
J170930.2-263927 when it was in outburst early 1997. This identifies the source
as a probable low-mass X-ray binary containing a neutron star. The error boxes
of the detected bursts and of the persistent emission, as obtained with the
Wide Field Cameras on board the BeppoSAX satellite, rule out an association
with the proposed radio counterpart (Hjellming & Rupen 1997).
