Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:13:52 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@ironport.com>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tokenring users? Message-ID: <200811192013.53405.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 10:09:20 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. =46rom the experience of replacing ~200 IBM token-ring terminals with ether= net=20 PCs & terminal emulators in a hospital back in 2001 ... yeah, it's dead. B= ack=20 then the rational was that it was already cheaper to buy a PC, ethernet car= d=20 and do the wiring than it was to get a replacement for a broken token ring= =20 card - let alone the hub that decided to die in the midst of the end-of-yea= r=20 tax report season. While TR was nice back in the days of 10Mbit ethernet hub days, there is no= =20 longer a market for it, except for the aforementioned IBM terminal - where= =20 =46reeBSD really doesn't play. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200811192013.53405.max>