Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:48:27 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Glover <rob@f-body.org> Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980225004647.27336C-100000@sailfish.exis.net> In-Reply-To: <34f4b8d8.6646364@mail.cetlink.net>
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> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:24:11 +1030, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > > >On a normal network, a 10Mbit Ethernet network could outrun a 16Mbit > >Token Ring network, simply because of the token-passing scheme that > >Token Ring uses. > > >token passing isn't very efficient under any kind of load. > > Can you back this up with performance test data? Also as in real world, the network I use to admin was Token Ring, a mixture of Type 1 and 3. It was a whole lot faster in preformance when doing a diskless OS/2 warp boot than when we had to move to ethernet. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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