Dan,
Hmmm, I'm not sure about token bridging, you can definately route across the
internet using token ring boxes, you may be able to bridge if you can find
some software that will work out all the token ring routing messages, i.e.
if something could look into the token packets, see the destination address
and realise that it is for the other network and then package it up in ip
and send it across the internet and get the other end of the link to do the
reverse. You would have to use LAA's on the token ring network so that you
could segment the network easily.
The question is whether there is some software available that would do this
for you. I don't see it being too much trouble to actually write this (if
you know your networking, token ring, source routing and kernel stuff :).
On the other hand, why not just use ip on the local networks then life would
be very easy.
Mike
Linux Token Ring Project
http://www.linuxtr.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hedlund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:45 PM
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Subject: Token ring bridge over IP?
Is there any support for a token bridging over IP with Linux? Something
that would allow hosts on 2 separate token rings to communicate without
knowing anything about IP. I'm looking for something similar to this kind
of configuration:
|-------| |--------| /------\ |--------| |-------|
| Token | | Linux | / \ | Linux | | Token |
| |--| |--|Internet|--| |--| |
| Ring | | Router | \ / | Router | | Ring |
|-------| |--------| \------/ |--------| |-------|
Thanks,
Dan Hedlund
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