Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:18:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: danj@3skel.com, 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: <199802252118.OAA27558@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802251714.KAA08580@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 25, 98 05:14:27 pm
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> > 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). Actually, I was thinking back to how I know this (I had a copy of the IBM specifications for everything at a previous employer), and I realized that the reason I had been looking at the LLC for them was in support of NetBEUI. There is a NetBEUI implementation for FreeBSD by some folks at Mitre which must have implemented much of the LLC code necessary. 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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