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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Any usable token ring drivers for FreeBSD?
Date: 6 Sep 1995 15:09:03 GMT
Organization: CICNet, Inc.
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I have a customer on an all-token-ring network (RS/6k's and MCA PS/2's and
all that rot) who needs me to bring up a PC-based Unix system.  We have the
luxury of buying any desired system and any desired token ring card for
the purpose, and we can run our choice of any of the free Unix operating
systems on it.

Are there any token ring cards supported by FreeBSD?  If so, which brand,
model and/or chipset are OK?  Can anyone comment on the reliability of
any of these drivers?  This will not be an extremely busy machine (sitting
behind a 56kb link takes care of that) but it does need to be reliable.

--
Paul Southworth
pauls@cic.net