Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 14:20:17 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> To: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> Cc: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>, hackers@freebsd.org, n1epo4tl@ibmmail.com Subject: Re: token ring anyone Message-ID: <19318.805238417@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jul 1995 17:00:51 -0000." <199507081700.RAA06452@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
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> Instead of writing token ring drivers, I think it would be a far better > investment to write NDIS3 miniport wrapper code for FreeBSD but I digress. Care to elaborate? :-) > So in essence, until the pain of not having Token Ring exceeds the pain > threshold of implementation it's unlikely to be done. Indeed, and the pain of not having Token Ring generally diminishes with each passing day as more and more TR user's accept the inevitable and bail out to Ethernet. I'm not saying that Token Ring doesn't have its faithful adherants or some fairly indisputable strenghs (like actually approaching reasonable link utilization efficiency or having a spare ~5Mb/sec to play with) but it's still just not enough to break the ethernet barrier. So until I see someone actually in possession of an IBM or Madge TR card *and* the hacking skills to do the rest come forward, I'll assume that the point is entirely moot. Jordan
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