Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Best token ring card for ethereal?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:39:39 -0500
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 03:41:27AM -0500, ch.tronche@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> The olicom PCI card works very well too. It supports promiscuous mode
> (at least the OC-3137 I'm using). You've to download the kernel patch
> from Olicom's web site and recompile it with the kernel. I don't know
> for the Madge, but with the Olicom ones, the device, strangely enough,
> is called "eth". So I've a few boxes with eth0 and eth1, eth0 being a
> token ring adapter and eth1 an Ethernet one...

Rogier Wolf (sp?) didn't like how the "tr" device naming worked in
Linux 2.0. (It was very ibmtr-specific).
This changed in Linux 2.2.; your Olicom TR NICs should now use "tr"
device names automatically.

The Linux Token-Ring project has a nice website at http://www.linuxtr.net/
They have a list of which cards work with Linux.

--gilbert