Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:09:50 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@ironport.com> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tokenring users? Message-ID: <4924566E.5060403@ironport.com> In-Reply-To: <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060609050101090003090804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:23:57AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> 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.. >> >> > > The last (afaik) in-tree token-ring driver we had was oltr(4) which has > been removed from HEAD not too long ago. So the questions is whether > there are companies with custom drivers. > exactly.. but there could be people using (or planning to use it) in on 7.x. > - Christian > > --------------060609050101090003090804--
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