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RE: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Graves (RHT))
Mon Nov 1 12:54:53 2010
From: "Richard Graves (RHT)" <rgraves@ColumbusAirports.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:54:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4CCEEF41.1060600@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Halloween is over, why do you have to keep saying scary things like that.. =
(even if it is true, unfortunately)
-Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]=20
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:48 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switchin=
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On 01/11/2010 15:21, Greg Whynott wrote:
> 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?
Sadly, you're living in a bubble. As long as there are banks and very=20
large commercial institutions, there will be legacy installations.=20
Including t/r. And OS/2. And windows NT 3.51. And FDDI and X.25 and=20
every single legacy protocol, type of hardware and ancient operating system=
=20
that ever existed.
Why do you think the Cisco 7500 only went EoS 3 years ago?
Nick
