[robin_reala]

Oh god, I’d blocked from my mind the pain of ring dropping. We had MAUs for the servers, but for some reason ran the rest of the office on CAT-5 TR gear from Madge without any MAUs. Just took someone to unplug and that section of the office would lose network connectivity.

[jgrahamc]

:-)

I used to work for Madge. Why were you running without MAUs?

[robin_reala]

Possibly the more important question is ‘Why were you running a token ring network in 1999?’! I have no idea why our network was structured like that, this was my first job in the industry and I was a lowly PC tech at the time. If I had to guess, the word that springs to mind is ‘legacy’.

[incision]

>'Possibly the more important question is ‘Why were you running a token ring network in 1999?’!'

I've worked on a token ring network as recently as 2006. Thankfully, part of the project was migrating off of it.

[sk5t]

Eh, I was a user on a token ring university network almost that late, and it was superior to the congestion-crippled ethernet networks at more 'advanced' institutions. That said, I definitely didn't enjoy all the practice I got in building token ring-enabled Linux kernels.