From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 17:20:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18989 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.onramp.net (mailhost.onramp.net [199.1.11.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18706 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlittell@onramp.net) Received: from daze (ppp12-58.dllstx.onramp.net [206.50.200.186]) by mailhost.onramp.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA20289 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:19:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34F4C1EC.FF6D5DF@onramp.net> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:15:43 -0600 From: Dave Littell Organization: Yeah, right..like we need this! X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? References: <199802250219.VAA23312@spooky.rwwa.com> <854t1n3a5l.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Marquardt wrote: > [deletia] > > 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. > Ah, but there's the key - it's only the physical wiring that stays the same. You'll have to swap out all the adapters *and* all the driver software on all the systems involved *and* almost certainly all the MAU's. So, if you're going that far already, why not just put use FDDI over the same STP that's already there and get away from all those boneheaded Token Ring quirks? Even after all these years, IBM apparently still has that "Not Invented Here" attitude. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message