[131812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Thu Nov 4 16:35:41 2010
From: Jake Khuon <khuon@neebu.net>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <0C5D997C-91C5-46EC-B383-D2D5EA6A3FF9@oicr.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:35:24 -0700
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: khuon@neebu.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:21 -0400, 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?
Look in your car...
If you have a recent vehicle (especially one with integrated nav,
multimedia radio and comms), it is likely that the system interconnect
is handled over Media Oriented System Transport (MOST) which is a
variation on traditional token-ring.
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