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From: brunner@cup.hp.com (Eric Brunner Contra)
Subject: Re: Does FREE BSD support Token Ring??
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terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
: Ruoyu Wang <c641797@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote:
: ]
: ] The subject said it.  We are a group of students that are gonna
: ] run Free BSD as the main operating system for  a student web 
: ] server.  The main concern for us is if FREE BSD has token ring
: ] support, especially PCI token ring ards.    Please email me
: ] if you have any idea on the development of token ring support.
: ] we originally was to try Linux, but it didn't support Token ring
: ] cards except IBM ISA, Microchannel card
: 
: 
: 1)	Write a driver.  Make it look sort of like the FDDI
: 	driver.

Umm, mine was accidentally distributed by Berekeley. Subsequently IBM
provided the release, so why not just use the one I modified?

: 2)	Buy the book "IBM Local Area Network, Technical Reference",
: 	Publication number SC30-3383-03 (39F9353).
: 
: 3)	Buy the book "IBM Supplement to the Local Area Network
: 	Technical Reference", Publication number SD21-0049-00
: 
: 4)	Using the FDDI and X.25 driver, write an 802.3 for token
: 	ring.  The DEC FDDI friver is the one you need to look at.
: 
: 5)	Write routing code.
: 
: Basically, most of the code is there, it just needs a driver and
: to be pieced together.

Don't forget the semantics of the 3rd bit in the RIF. That was one of the
funniest things I've ever seen.
: 
:                                         Terry Lambert
:                                         terry@cs.weber.edu
: ---
: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
: or previous employers.
-- 
Kitakitamatsinopowaw (I'll see you again)

		-- Eric Brunner