From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 09:52:45 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 A72D91065677; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:52:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=julian=2029692e7@ironport.com) Received: from smtp-outbound.ironport.com (smtp-outbound.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769418FC20; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:52:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=julian=2029692e7@ironport.com) DomainKey-Signature: s=key512; d=ironport.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To: CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=Gep/+KnN+c5hQw+GIu+ePmvFuc9kkPACeGw6GiatSN8DGCdlY96QtrgY mOJLLmEr1Y5BLS+IM2X1E9aiU2YTGQ==; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ironport.com; i=julian@ironport.com; q=dns/txt; s=ironport-dkim; t=1227088366; x=1258624366; h=from:sender:reply-to:subject:date:message-id:to:cc: mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-id: content-description:resent-date:resent-from:resent-sender: resent-to:resent-cc:resent-message-id:in-reply-to: references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:list-owner:list-archive; z=From:=20Julian=20Elischer=20 |Subject:=20Re:=20tokenring=20users?|Date:=20Wed,=2019=20 Nov=202008=2001:23:57=20-0800|Message-ID:=20<4923DB2D.208 0702@ironport.com>|To:=20Andre=20Oppermann=20|CC:=20FreeBSD=20Net=20 |MIME-Version:=201.0|In-Reply-To:=20<4923D7C0.7050301@fre ebsd.org>|References:=20<49233959.9040903@ironport.com> =20<4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org>; bh=1kFd4u3bq5aSm2GKebz3u+sd17ssmjL9rky5BiUHFkI=; b=AMnVlXHX0i2R4aqYdoJxnK4eFkqd+gSBu6fSEPTET9Rcv1YJu7jibtB5 exC1zbTfxO/5/dIvObhZCQ1mgsaNDQ==; Received: from unknown (HELO julian-mac.elischer.org) ([10.251.60.177]) by smtp-outbound.ironport.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2008 01:23:58 -0800 Message-ID: <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:23:57 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Oppermann References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040300070207030502060100" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 09:52:45 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040300070207030502060100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andre Oppermann wrote: > 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. > yes I think that may be the case but I saw a bug report about it a few years ago.. --------------040300070207030502060100--