when last we saw our hero (Wednesday, May 07, 2003), Nate Carlson was madly tapping out: > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Brian wrote: > > Thanks for the confirmation Nate. As I suspected, said units are > > quite spendy and it's only needed for a short time. If anyone has > > 2 of them I can beg/borrow/steal, I owe you many, many beers. > > Grab a pair of crappy Linux boxes, buy a pair of crappy fiber nics > (or ethernet cards plus 10mb transceivers, which I'm sure many > people would be happy to give you), and make your own routing > transceivers? :) > > (From what I read, you may be able to bridge ethernet <-> tr with > Linux, but not real cleanly..) if you're willing to go through that much work - i would highly recommend routing the traffic over that connection. bridging token-ring and ethernet is a masochistic endeavor under the best of circumstances with gear that does it intelligently. last i saw a year or 2 ago, the linux TR bridging code was not fully baked. i'm making the gross assumption that you're dealing with IP traffic. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list