From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 13:34:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA24604 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24597 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA04955; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:26:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605222026.NAA04955@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Is Token Ring supported? To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:26:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: joe@ns.via.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605221739.KAA04546@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at May 22, 96 10:39:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We need to set up a DHCP server at work - but it needs to support > > token ring. > > > > If FreeBSD doesn't support TR, I guess we'll be forced to use BSDi or > > even NT. > > Not yet. I thought someone was working on it. Les Higger (who just posted to questions today) is working on a TR driver; there are actually several people hacking. I was looking at the 802.2 LLC code (which is partly there for the FDDI and partly there for the X.25), and referring to the IBM document "Local Area Network, Technical Reference", part number SC30-3383-03/39F9353 and the "Supplement to the Local Area Network Technical reference", part number SD21-0049-00. I think the LLC state machine, if fully implemented, is a real bear. On the bright side, it would be a significant step towards native NetBEUI support as well. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.