Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

Tue Nov 2 20:48:40 UTC 2010

lets just say that its easier to have a linux box bridge/route between 
ethernet and token ring than it is to get ethernet nics for your as/400's 
and other old stuff.

>>
>> you recently converted from token ring to ethernet?   i had no idea there
>> was still token ring networks out there,  or am i living in a bubble?
>>
>> -g
>>
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know what the big deal is.  I've rolled at least 20 of these
>>> switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the
>>> Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much.
>>> Most of the money I dropped was on converting my stations from token
>>> ring to ethernet.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:59 PM, bas <kilobit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>>>>> I might also mention that I received private SPAM from a name we all
>>>>> know and loath. (Hint: He's been banned from NANOG for VERY good
>>>>> reason and his name is of French derivation.) I just added a filter to
>>>>> block any mail mentioning pica8 and will see no more of this thread or
>>>>> their spam.
>>>>
>>>> Same here.
>>>> He harvests email addresses from peeringdb. (I have slight typo's in
>>>> my peeringdb record to recognize harvested spams.)
>>>>
>>>> Bas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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