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From: dcrocker@AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reliability of TCP/IP  and Token rings....
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Date: 28 Aug 89 02:47:10 GMT
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Mike,

Token ring technology does not necessarily permit two hosts to dominate.
The Irvine ring essentially guaranteed a round-robin allocation of
bandwidth, since each station could piggyback its packet on the end of
a chain.

Dave