From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 21:54:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11318 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:54:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.exis.net (root@marlin.exis.net [205.252.72.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11257 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@exis.net) Received: from sailfish.exis.net (stefan@sailfish.exis.net [205.252.72.104]) by marlin.exis.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12819; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:53:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:48:27 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: John Kelly cc: Greg Lehey , Chris Dillon , Adam Turoff , hackers , Robert Glover Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? In-Reply-To: <34f4b8d8.6646364@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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? Also as in real world, the network I use to admin was Token Ring, a mixture of Type 1 and 3. It was a whole lot faster in preformance when doing a diskless OS/2 warp boot than when we had to move to ethernet. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message