14 Jan
2007
14 Jan
'07
7:18 a.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
Also what is a good way to bridge Token Ring to
Ethernet so that
these 486 machines can use my router/cable modem?
Last time I did that was quite a few years ago, using a spare Linux box. I
think the TR side of things was a Madge PCI board of some flavour, with the
Ethernet side probably being a 3Com 905 PCI (100mbit).
As I recall, Linux supported the IBM ISA boards back then, along with Madge
cards using Madge's own drivers. I don't think there was any support around at
all for Olicom cards. Things may well be better these days... people have had
about ten years to write a few more drivers :-)
Our (small-ish, maybe 150 machines) network was token ring, but there'd always
be a few projects on the go which used server machines from the likes of Sun,
SGI, HP etc. and which really wanted to be on Ethernet - hence the need for
the bridge.
cheers
Jules