From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: TokenRing card support? -- NO Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 13:56:21 GMT
In article <29203e$758@nic.cerf.net> mcruse@nic.cerf.net (Mike Cruse) writes:
>Donald J. Becker (becker@super.org) wrote:
>: In article <93278.133414ZIYA@trmetu.bitnet>,
>: Ziya Karakaya <ZIYA@TRMETU.BITNET> wrote:
>: >Has any body used IBM TokenRing card with Linux?
>: >If so I would like to hear about.
>
>: No, there is no token ring support in Linux. To support token ring requires
>: more than only a writing a device driver, it also requires writing the source
>: routing routines for token ring. Given that token ring is expensive, not
It will require a device driver being written, routing code being written,
changes to the bottom socket layer to support 802.2 and 802.2 based TCP/IP.
Don't expect anything soon
Alan