From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 07:37:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07162 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:37:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07119 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.NoDak.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26643; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:36:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:36:49 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199802251536.JAA26643@plains.NoDak.edu> To: AdamT@smginc.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rob@f-body.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard says about token ring: > None of which refutes my original point, of course, which is that it's > still dead dead dead dead dead. It's dead, Jim, and it's not coming > back for the sequel. Time to move on. I think the network battle has been fought and won by IP, but IBM does not believe that nor have they given up. They want to move TR to 100Mb and 1Gb speeds. It does not matter if it is the most expensive technology in the universe, IBM shops will buy the technology (I am not being totally derogatory to those that buy anything Blue, there are cases where the cost of change is perceived to higher than the cost of the technology). I know of a couple people that would like to run BSD, but must run Linux because they are stuck on a TR segment. If IBM does raise the speeds of TR, there will be real pressure for FreeBSD TR support. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message