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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.cyberport.net!myke From: myke@phluffy.cyberport.net (Mike Holling) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Token Ring and FreeBSD Date: 15 Mar 1997 19:36:34 GMT Organization: Cyberport Montana. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <slrn5ilui2.3bm.myke@phluffy.cyberport.net> References: <5g5cig$iju@access5.digex.net> <332AE32F.33590565@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: myke@cyberport.net NNTP-Posting-Host: phluffy.cyberport.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37171 In article <332AE32F.33590565@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >R. D. Davis wrote: >> My plans were to use FreeBSD, but, at this point, it appears that I >> may end up using NetBSD for this, as I understand that NetBSD supports >> token ring. > >Are you sure about that? AFAIK, none of the BSD variants currently >support token ring (not even in ALPHA test). BSDi does. This summer I needed to setup a UNIX box as a dialup 28.8 router to a TokenRing LAN. Neither Linux nor FreeBSD had useable token ring support, but it worked just fine with BSDi. I think 2 or 3 different cards were supported. - Mike