From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 10:30:08 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 7ABC61065692 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from mail.cksoft.de (mail.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320A88FC20 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (amavis.str.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54D641C69F; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cksoft.de Received: from mail.cksoft.de ([62.111.66.27]) by localhost (amavis.str.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c+CtIF89Fpoc; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 69B9F41C6BB; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BB6444888; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:28:19 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> Message-ID: <20081119102301.R61259@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> X-OpenPGP-Key: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 10:30:08 -0000 On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: Hi, > 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.. I have given away all my TR equipment a few years back, but I know people still running TR though with Cisco and non-FreeBSD-OSes though they got rid of all TR they could get rid off. So what exactly is your question in supporting and testing FreeBSD TR support? And let me ask why you are asking for TR, not FDDI or some of the other things lingering in sys/net**? /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb Stop bit received. Insert coin for new game.