Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:02 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ironport.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tokenring users? Message-ID: <20081119103602.GA2339@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com> References: <49233959.9040903@ironport.com> <4923D7C0.7050301@freebsd.org> <4923DB2D.2080702@ironport.com>
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--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:23:57AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Andre Oppermann wrote: > >Julian Elischer wrote: > >>One of the things that are making things hard for network testing is=20 > >>the question > >>"what to do about tokenring support?" > >> > >>We seem to have a dearth of tokenring users so we are completely unable > >>test how changes affect tokenring. > >> > >>If anyone here knows anyone whoul could: > >>1/ help support tokenring > >>2/ help test tokenring, > >> > >>could they get in touch? > > > >I guess Token Ring is as dead as it gets. The last I time ran across > >someone using it was in 1996 or 1997. I asked our engineers here (on > >a customer base of about 1k SME) and got only blank stares. > > >=20 > yes I think that may be the case but I saw a bug report > about it a few years ago.. >=20 The last (afaik) in-tree token-ring driver we had was oltr(4) which has been removed from HEAD not too long ago. So the questions is whether there are companies with custom drivers. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJI+wSbHYXjKDtmC0RAqpkAKDJ/wcmUGRV5aHIbr6aKQMoPEZYkgCg6wR+ BRM2/2jNwQo4dVyL50w/eYY= =x8OM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--
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