From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 09:09:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB1B1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3665C8FC08 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 21445 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2008 07:34:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Nov 2008 07:34:33 -0000 Message-ID: <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:09:20 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> In-Reply-To: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: tokenring users? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:18 -0000 Julian Elischer wrote: > One of the things that are making things hard for network testing is the > question > "what to do about tokenring support?" > > We seem to have a dearth of tokenring users so we are completely unable > test how changes affect tokenring. > > If anyone here knows anyone whoul could: > 1/ help support tokenring > 2/ help test tokenring, > > could they get in touch? I guess Token Ring is as dead as it gets. The last I time ran across someone using it was in 1996 or 1997. I asked our engineers here (on a customer base of about 1k SME) and got only blank stares. -- Andre