26 Jul
2003
26 Jul
'03
8:25 p.m.
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(a)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