From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 15:25:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23426 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:25:29 -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 PAA23374 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts2-cltnc-93.cetlink.net [209.54.58.93]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA18836; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:24:49 -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: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:25:04 GMT Message-ID: <34f4b362.667778@mail.cetlink.net> References: <34F37C2A@smginc.com> <19980225122411.62329@freebie.lemis.com> <34f4b8d8.6646364@mail.cetlink.net> <19980226083615.55804@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980226083615.55804@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 PAA23385 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:36:15 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> It doesn't jive at all with test results Tolly published several years >> ago in Data Communications. > >Did he have an axe to grind? Not that I know of. >> He said token ring would run at full 16mb wire speed while Ethernet >> would degrade to 7mb because of collisions. > >Right, and none of us have ever seen more than 7 Mb/s out of a 10 Mb >Ethernet, right? You're dodging the collision issue. I've seen 10mb between two stations on my BNC Ethernet when nothing else is on the wire, but more stations talking will cause throughput to fall off. >Any such statement *must* be qualified by the test conditions. He probably tested it more thoroughly than either one of us have. Why not read his report instead of throwing stones? -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message