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From: myke@phluffy.cyberport.net (Mike Holling)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Token Ring and FreeBSD
Date: 15 Mar 1997 19:36:34 GMT
Organization: Cyberport Montana.
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In article <332AE32F.33590565@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>R. D. Davis wrote:
>> My plans were to use FreeBSD, but, at this point, it appears that I
>> may end up using NetBSD for this, as I understand that NetBSD supports
>> token ring.
>
>Are you sure about that?  AFAIK, none of the BSD variants currently
>support token ring (not even in ALPHA test).

BSDi does.  This summer I needed to setup a UNIX box as a dialup 28.8 router
to a TokenRing LAN.  Neither Linux nor FreeBSD had useable token ring support,
but it worked just fine with BSDi.  I think 2 or 3 different cards were
supported.

- Mike