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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 19 Nov 1993 04:28:48 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <1993Nov18.142838.22145@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In article <93319.140154UD068690@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Mark Diers <UD068690@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
>>What would clinch my vote for either operating system would be token ring
>>support. Is anybody out there working on it? I've looked into it but have
>>come up with the concluusion that I lack the technical expertise to even
>>start on such a project.
>>
>As far as I know the answer is nobody is doing it. Token ring is a pain in
>the backside and means implementing 802.2 layers, 802.5 layers, IP over
>802.3 (not too hard) and the horrible source routing stuff.
>
>Alan
>

I don't think so.  Wouldn't it simply be necessary to implement the
Token-Ring_SNAP frame type?  All the IP stuff I've seen on TR uses
that frametype and is *NOT* source-routed.  Source-routing is for
IBM bridges.  These suck!  Real TR networks use routers!  :-)
Seriously though, if you have a routed TR network implementing IP on
TR would simply be a hardware driver and the Token-ring_SNAP stuff.
Doesn't seem that complicated to me, though I couldn't do it.. :-(

-Andrew

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