From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 18:09:52 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 42F8E1065673; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:09:52 +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 0E7748FC1C; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:09:51 +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=SefGTMgfwTbonkN/npHPCjOt6X0EoaG971KqFOi6THDqhzBBzgo97xjb NvV0qgIMrcZumVmAAugk9/yvjEcqPA==; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ironport.com; i=julian@ironport.com; q=dns/txt; s=ironport-dkim; t=1227118192; x=1258654192; 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=2010:09:50=20-0800|Message-ID:=20<4924566E.506 0403@ironport.com>|To:=20Christian=20Brueffer=20|CC:=20Andre=20Oppermann=20,=20=0D=0A=20FreeBSD=20Net=20 |MIME-Version:=201.0|In-Reply-To:=20<20081119103602.GA233 9@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>|References:=20<49233959 .9040903@ironport.com>=20<4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> =20<4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com>=20<20081119103602.GA23 39@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>; bh=fTnHMlF+JuVoFgwjkFhOEiNATdEuZiFKSAfW3+L9tFY=; b=IrO2RBJYQe8qA+XULg44O95ZBikgLlyITiQPq+mh0LxWGHCF2IHHYNZX cpeZj7I2MzF+l+C8VW+8qpDFGVQmkA==; Received: from unknown (HELO julian-mac.elischer.org) ([10.251.60.177]) by smtp-outbound.ironport.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2008 10:09:51 -0800 Message-ID: <4924566E.5060403@ironport.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:09:50 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Brueffer References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060609050101090003090804" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 18:09:52 -0000 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--