No, You can use a Novell server with Token-Ring and even route between
machines
on Token-Ring and Ethernet. I don't know if there are any TCP/ IP over
Token Ring solutions
though.
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 10:54 PM, ghldbrd(a)ccp.com wrote:
I have a box full of token-ring adapters, IBM new in
the box, and can't
find a nibble here in the States. I've been told that token ring
netowrking is an IBM only system, and requies an IBM server to play.
Guess that's why everyone went to Ethernet.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
> Am clearing out my garage to make space for a PDP 11/34.
> Is there any interest at all in a fair-sized pile of token ring stuff
> -
> some
> 4MHz, some 4/16MHz (cards [inc unused PCMCIA], cables, MAUs etc) or
> should
> it all go to the dump.
> eBay prices appear to be too low to be worth the bother.
> I suspect that thge only people who might be interested in collecting
> TR
> have already been able to pick up as much as they want.
>
> This is in Rayleigh, Essex (England)
>
> Andy