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| 57793 | 2002-06-27 12:08:00 | Hi; does anybody know if a token-ring adapter can be connected to normal ethernet adapter using standard lan cable directly? If not, how should those token-ring adapters be connected ? I am really confused by those cards since I don't even know the difference between them (looks like they all got rj-45 adapters.) Thanks! |
Long (692) | ||
| 57794 | 2002-06-27 22:52:00 | the easy answer is you cant conect them to anything other then token ring. the full technical answer is that token ring and ethernet are two diffrent systems and ethernet is the most used system. both systems are used for lan an can have TCP/IP sent over them. I dont have time to go in to how to connect the two system to geather but lets just say hard and costly |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 57795 | 2002-06-28 04:58:00 | The good part of the technical answer is that you can connect them . The bad part of the answer is that it won't work . Token ring is technically a very good system . IBM built it to be very robust and self-healing and with prodictable response times . It was very expensive . It was used on expensive mainframe systems . And it was (basically) a one-supplier sytem . Ethernet was built by a consortium . It was built to be robust and error tolerant . It was/is available from multiple suppliers . It was adopted for the Internet, and TCP/IP was based on it . If you've got a lot of Token Ring cards they are not really worth bothering with . Ethernet cards are so cheap now that it's not worth trying to get hold of the Token Ring "hubs" . Secondhand 10 MBps ISA cards are even cheaper . --- price down to free . |
Graham L (2) | ||
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