>I've also got some Token Ring info at www.itprc.com/datalink.htm. The Token
>Ring FAQ is pretty good.
>
>BTW, it still amazes me how much TR there is out there in the world. One of
>our larger enterprise customers still has 20-30% of their PC's on token
>ring. Of course, they now want to run full-motion video to those desktops.
>:-)
>
>Irwin
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, or human resistance
to change.
Have you suggested they just send a fixed image and watch the token
ring spin it around?
(For all the fun I poke at it, I really think that token ring has
some very elegant design features. But the market no longer accepts
it and it is too expensive. Reminiscent, vaguely, of Beta versus
VHS).
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Bambic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:20 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: CCIE token ring documentation and books [7:914]
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>>
>> If you really want to understand token ring look at this site:
>> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/tokenrng.htm
>> Read the bridging section of the Caslow book as well as the
>> bridging section
>> of the Lammle CCIE book. Between those 3 items I finally got it down.
>> Caslow definitely was able to make me understand canonical address to
>> non-canonical address conversion.
>> Lammle got me to understand the RIF decoding very well.
>> The Cisco page made me understand the physical topology very well.
>>
>> That white paper on CCIE prep says token ring is a physical ring but a
>> logical bus, it's a physical star and a logical ring.
>> It's RIF decoding is way off and it's canonical address
>> conversion is also
>> wrong.
>> Everything else I knew.
>>
>> Mike Bambic
>> Lead Mentor
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