From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 21:27:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03842 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03832 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts2-cltnc-79.cetlink.net [209.54.58.79]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01365; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:26:41 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Chris Dillon , Adam Turoff , hackers , Robert Glover Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:27:07 GMT Message-ID: <34f4b8d8.6646364@mail.cetlink.net> References: <34F37C2A@smginc.com> <19980225122411.62329@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980225122411.62329@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA03833 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:24:11 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >On a normal network, a 10Mbit Ethernet network could outrun a 16Mbit >Token Ring network, simply because of the token-passing scheme that >Token Ring uses. >token passing isn't very efficient under any kind of load. Can you back this up with performance test data? It doesn't jive at all with test results Tolly published several years ago in Data Communications. He said token ring would run at full 16mb wire speed while Ethernet would degrade to 7mb because of collisions. -- The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live freed software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message