From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 11:06:05 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 3DA731065670; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5918FC0C; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:06:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) MIME-version: 1.0 Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KAK007NRTG3ZEF0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de>; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:03 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,630,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="90915363" Received: from smarthost-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO smarthost.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.90]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:02 +0100 Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id mAJAa3Rc008248; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1L2kPj-0008JH-5l; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:03 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 07C283F41B; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:02 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer To: Julian Elischer Message-id: <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Net , Andre Oppermann 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 11:06:05 -0000 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > >>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. > > >=20 > yes I think that may be the case but I saw a bug report > about it a few years ago.. >=20 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. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJI+wSbHYXjKDtmC0RAqpkAKDJ/wcmUGRV5aHIbr6aKQMoPEZYkgCg6wR+ BRM2/2jNwQo4dVyL50w/eYY= =x8OM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--