From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 21:43:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07501 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07475 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts2-cltnc-79.cetlink.net [209.54.58.79]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02788; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Tom Cc: Greg Lehey , Chris Dillon , Adam Turoff , hackers , Robert Glover Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:43:50 GMT Message-ID: <34f5bd29.7750741@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA07479 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:19:21 -0800 (PST), Tom wrote: > Yes, it is true. 16mbs token ring is quite fast. Token-passing is a >bit of problem with large numbers of stations. Token networks make very >efficient use of network bandwidth though. > > However, any kind of switched ethernet still blows it away. It does >away with collision contention, and makes ethernet full duplex. As long as all stations are directly connected to the switch. But in networks I've seen, only the bandwidth hogs are connected directly to the switch while the average user station is still attached to a hub. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message