From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 13:19:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21810 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21733 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:18:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10701; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:18:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd010637; Wed Feb 25 14:18:31 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27558; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:18:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802252118.OAA27558@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:18:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: danj@3skel.com, tlambert@primenet.com, tom@sdf.com, jak@cetlink.net, grog@lemis.com, cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, AdamT@smginc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rob@f-body.org In-Reply-To: <199802251714.KAA08580@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 25, 98 05:14:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Someone said, before, the kernel would need stuff in it to merely > > deal with the token-passing architecture. After that, network drivers > > could be written. Don't we already have FDDI? Does it provide a similar > > token-passing substructure? > > Yes. The FDDI and X.25 code (which you can maybe find in the attic > portion of the CVS tree) both implement most of the necessary pieces > of 802.5 LLC (which is probably the name of the sbustructure you > were looking for here). Actually, I was thinking back to how I know this (I had a copy of the IBM specifications for everything at a previous employer), and I realized that the reason I had been looking at the LLC for them was in support of NetBEUI. There is a NetBEUI implementation for FreeBSD by some folks at Mitre which must have implemented much of the LLC code necessary. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message