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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:40:04 +0200
From:      Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>
To:        Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Token Ring - Ethernet bridge 
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.2.20021003083237.022d9008@194.184.65.7>
In-Reply-To: <200209161736.g8GHa2KY003921@nic-naa.net>
References:  <Message from Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209160950140.95489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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At 16/09/2002, you wrote:
>uhh... wakeup(&me->ibm_4.3bsd)
>
>What are people using for token-ring now a days?

I have a box which acts as firewall with ipfw and dummynet on a public 
company that still uses token ring for its intranet.

oltr0: <Olicom PCI/II 16/4 Adapter (OC-3137)> port 0xd000-0xd03f irq 10 at 
device 10.0 on pci0
oltr0: MAC address 00:00:83:2b:63:db

freebsd:/home/gmarco> ifconfig -a
oltr0: flags=143<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 1500
         inet 172.16.16.239 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 172.16.31.255
         lladdr .0.83.2b.63.db
         media: Token ring UTP/16Mbit
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
         ether 00:50:ba:ee:58:38


The "plain" oltr driver is fine, even if it has some oddities on it and too 
much verbose messages that
"scare" the customer :-)
Oct  3 08:41:21 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: tx queue full
Oct  3 08:41:21 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: queue restart
Oct  3 08:41:22 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: tx queue full
Oct  3 08:41:22 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: queue restart


The Olicom cards seems to me the only one supported by the driver of Larry 
Lile.
It's a pity because I am full of IBM card that I can't use :-)







Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco



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