Anyone (un)fortunate enough to have worked with twinax or token ring or anything else out of IBM predating UTP and modern hubs and switches knows the exquisite and singular joy of tracking down a single unplugged node, often among hundreds.
With twinax, yes..
Token Ring? No way.... That is one of the most elegant protocols ever!
Having a problem? Fire up TAP (Trace And Performance) and capture some packets... Take a look..
Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor, Nearest Active Downstream Neighbor..
It was very easy to identify problems, and the bridging (read- dual port switch) localized your beacon domain...
Token Ring died because it was too expensive and it was IBM :-), nothing to do with the technology... I much preferred reading token ring packets to ethernet.
Heck, Ethernet has the word "collision" right in the name of what it is. CSMA/CD!!
And you thought the Amiga/ST lines were drawn deep!!!!!
desiv
(But, wasn't I the one who said we had to move our agency to Ethernet from Token-Ring? Yes, but that doesn't mean I was happy about it! :-)
