Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

Gary Baribault <gary@baribault.net> wrote:

And you live in a cabin in the woods, pedal a generator to get the router up and the router is connected to a 56K Dial-up morem?

I have never used those "56K" dial-up modems because they are asymmetric: it's only "56K" in the downstream direction, and I oppose that on principle. Prior to switching to my current 384 kbps SDSL (served by a V.35 CPE device of my own design and make, see earlier messages in this thread), I was using an always-on (immediate redial on disconnect) analog modem connection at 31200 bps. One of the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus MicroVAXen acted as the router, and the PPP implementation in the kernel was written by me from scratch: the original non-Quasijarus 4.3BSD only had SLIP. MS