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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!news1.boi.hp.com!hpax!brunner From: brunner@cup.hp.com (Eric Brunner Contra) Subject: Re: Does FREE BSD support Token Ring?? Sender: news@hpax (News Admin) Message-ID: <DCws96.3o0@cup.hp.com> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:41:30 GMT References: <3vpqmt$c9l@park.uvsc.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: hpwsky.cup.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard Lines: 44 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