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Re: Old network interfaces still alive?



On Jan 16, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone still has (working) hardware for any of
> the following networks and, if so, what device drivers they use?
> 
>    ARCnet
>    ECOnet
>    FDDI
>    HIPPI
>    Token Ring
> 
> I've been doing some work on the the kernel networking which is going
> to unavoidably involve a change to the interface to network device
> drivers.  While I could rewrite support for the L2 networks above
> and get it to the point where it compiles, this seems pointless if
> there is no one who can actually run the result to test it.
> 
> Can anyone run any of these?

I have a DEFTA and a few DEFPA (both FDDI).  Might even have a DEFEA
somewhere.  


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