Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:58:44 +0100 (CET) From: Michael.Bielicki@linkdesign.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <199802250158.CAA24095@cyprus.vds.linkdesign.com> In-Reply-To: <85afbg314e.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
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On 24 Feb, Dave Marquardt wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: >> > Token Ring is the most expensive, slowest networking protocol on the >> > planet(*). Why wouldn't a slick, fast OS like FreeBSD support it? >> >> Actually, while it may be more expensive (and I guess that depends on >> whether or not you just inheirited a truckload of TR gear from some >> company abandoning it and didn't have to pay a cent :-), I don't think >> it's exactly the *slowest* - doesn't TR operate at 16MBit/sec as >> opposed to the 10MBit/sec of your more pedestrian ethernet? >> >> None of which refutes my original point, of course, which is that it's >> still dead dead dead dead dead. It's dead, Jim, and it's not coming >> back for the sequel. Time to move on. > > I sure wish someone would tell IBM! :-) IBM (and perhaps some > others--I don't quite recall) are now talking about 100 Mb/sec Token > Ring. > > -Dave Hmm, I worked sometime with switched token ring over XyLan switches (http://www.xylan.com) and the sutff was incredibly fast. I am looking for a driver for some time now but noone seems to be interested. Especialy for some of our customers who would like to run a freebsd box as a gateway to the net for there IBM based networks this would be perfect :) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Michael Bielicki Buisnetco Telecom. Ltd. Link Design International Ltd. 13 Iras Str., Office 23 65, Cliff Rd, Tramore Nicosia 1061, Cyprus http://www.linkdesign.com Co. Waterford, Ireland Voice: +357-2-362 421 Voice: +353-51-386921 Fax: +357-2-362 429 We use FreeBSD Fax: +353-51-390880 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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