Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:14:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: danj@3skel.com (Dan Janowski) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tom@sdf.com, jak@cetlink.net, grog@lemis.com, cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, AdamT@smginc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rob@f-body.org Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <199802251714.KAA08580@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980225070109.18433A-100000@fnur.3skel.com> from "Dan Janowski" at Feb 25, 98 07:03:46 am
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> > It also allows for bidirectional, if you do it right (like FDDI does). > > Someone said, before, the kernel would need stuff in it to merely > deal with the token-passing architecture. After that, network drivers > could be written. Don't we already have FDDI? Does it provide a similar > token-passing substructure? Yes. The FDDI and X.25 code (which you can maybe find in the attic portion of the CVS tree) both implement most of the necessary pieces of 802.5 LLC (which is probably the name of the sbustructure you were looking for here). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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