tokenring users?

[Julian Elischer]

Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:23:57AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>   
>> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>     
>>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>       
>>>> One of the things that are making things hard for network testing is 
>>>> the question
>>>> "what to do about tokenring support?"
>>>>
>>>> We seem to have a dearth of tokenring users so we are completely unable
>>>> test how changes affect tokenring.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone here knows anyone whoul could:
>>>> 1/ help support tokenring
>>>> 2/ help test tokenring,
>>>>
>>>> could they get in touch?
>>>>         
>>> I guess Token Ring is as dead as it gets.  The last I time ran across
>>> someone using it was in 1996 or 1997.  I asked our engineers here (on
>>> a customer base of about 1k SME) and got only blank stares.
>>>
>>>       
>> yes I think that may be the case but I saw a bug report
>> about it a few years ago..
>>
>>     
>
> The last (afaik) in-tree token-ring driver we had was oltr(4) which has
> been removed from HEAD not too long ago.  So the questions is whether
> there are companies with custom drivers.
>   

exactly.. but there could be people using (or planning to use it) in on 7.x.

> - Christian
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