Token ring (UK)

From: Bill Richman <bill_at_timeguy.com>
Date: Sat Jul 26 19:25:50 2003

Yeah - but just go out and try to find a PC motherboard with built-in
token-ring nic, or a NAS box that supports TR, or one of the
multi-function printer/copier/scanner appliances... Not to mention the
rather obscene cost of TR nics and hubs/switches. 100Mb ethernet to the
desktop with a switched connection to the server for each workstation
seems to be working just fine, thanks.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Richman wrote:
>
> > We've been running IP over token-ring for years. Last year, we upgraded
> > all our machines (200 of them) and in the process replaced almost all of
> > our token-ring hubs with ethernet switches, and our TR nics with
> > ethernet cards. We have a few old servers and some specialized machines
> > that are still on TR; we have a Madge "Smart RingSwitch" with both
> > token-ring and ethernet modules in it; it routes at the MAC layer, and
> > seems to work great.
>
> You downgraded to Ethernet, huh? Token Ring runs 2Gbps already.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Jul 26 2003 - 19:25:50 BST