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

[Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven () cb3rob net>]

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 () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Kevin Oberman <oberman () 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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