From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 08:47:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19345 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:47:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-0141.jumpnet.com [207.8.61.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19270 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:47:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id KAA00775; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:46:46 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? References: <199802250219.VAA23312@spooky.rwwa.com> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 25 Feb 1998 10:46:14 -0600 In-Reply-To: Robert Withrow's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:19:40 -0500" Message-ID: <854t1n3a5l.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Withrow writes: > marquard@zilker.net said: > :- I sure wish someone would tell IBM! :-) IBM (and perhaps some > :- others--I don't quite recall) are now talking about 100 Mb/sec Token > :- Ring. > > While everyone else is *making* Gigabit Ethernets. Including IBM. I work for IBM, so I can speak to this a little. IBM has all of these large corporate customers (including IBM itself) that have a big investment in Token Ring. If they can keep these people happy by creating 100 Mb/sec. token ring on the same wiring, they'll make some money. That's what's driving IBM. Anyway, if you don't like Token Ring, don't buy it. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message