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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:4238 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7003 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2chi20$l2m@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <93319.140154UD068690@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <1993Nov18.142838.22145@swan.pyr> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu 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 -- #!/bin/sh - ============================================== echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" echo "Winix Hacker usrvnp86@ibmmail.com" #=========================================================