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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Token Ring - Again !
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:23:19 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Yoni Bar-Lavie wrote:
> I would like to try and write support for Token-Ring but I would have to
> know:
>         a) Am I qualified for this

Probably not. :-)

>         b) is it dangerous to my network

I'm not sure what this means, but your network probably wants to go
ethernet at some point anyway.

>         c) do I get help

I think you're on your own.  We gave up on Token Ring years ago.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.