Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:53:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Bert Kellerman <bertke@iglou.com> To: Nicolai Petri <npp@distortion.dk> Cc: freebsd-tokenring@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entering the ring correctly (as the only node) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9904191348370.25153-100000@shell1> In-Reply-To: <006701be897d$d2f8f180$6435a8c0@arhsysnp>
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have not messed with the driver in FreeBSD but the setup of the activend standby monitors should be automatic. The active monitor is important is that is controls clocking, propagation delays, etc. Most importantly it removes frames that have circled the ring. It does this by reading the monitor bit. Are you losing functionality or connectivity after the "no active monitor" error? This might be an informational message and your node will assume the role of active monitor. Check out http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LANs/token-ring-faq/ There is a breakdown here of the Active Monitor contention process. It appears if no AM is found and the contention process fails, insertion will fail.. You are inserting succesfully though so again this might be informational. Thanks and letme know if this helps cause I need to put FreeBSD on tokenring soon. :) Bert On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Nicolai Petri wrote: > I finally managed to get the IBM Pci Driver to enter the ring. But i'm > having a problem when there is no other nodes on the mau. The card reports > something like "No active monitor". And my knowledge in Token Ring is rather > limited.. Somebody how knows what the problem is ? (Maybe some RPL stuff?) > > Help wanted.. > > -------------------- > Nicolai Petri > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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