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RE: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adcock, Matt [HISNA])
Wed Nov 3 10:09:29 2010
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 07:08:39 -0700
From: "Adcock, Matt [HISNA]" <MAdcock@hisna.com>
To: "Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo" <carlosm3011@gmail.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
To my knowledge Simplex Grinnell fire detection systems currently use token =
ring.
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From: Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo [mailto:carlosm3011@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 11/2/2010 3:44 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
Not only token ring. I know of some coaxial ethernets that were running as
late as 2007.
Some ATM machines still use X.25. And I know of at least one operational
CNLP network (not a commercial one though)
cheers!
Carlos
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>wrote=
:
> off topic...
>
> 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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