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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does FREE BSD support Token Ring??
Date: 3 Aug 1995 06:35:09 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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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.
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.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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