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From: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
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Subject: Re: Is Apollo token ring ISO 802.5?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 22:14:51 GMT
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In article <GLASS.91Jun13171954@arcadia.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>
>In the documentation I have from Apollo they refer to the token ring
>they support as "Apollo Token Ring", not as ISO 802.5 token ring?  Is
>it ISO or not?  If not, what document describes it?

No - Apollo Token Ring (ATR) is *not* ISO.  Apollo does, however,
support 802.5 token rings as well - so you can have two different
token ring boards in your apollo.

The best reference (well - the only one I know of) for details of the
ATR is probably (hang on while I go over to my bookcase) I.E.E.E.
Jounal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 1, Nr. 5; November
1983, pp 842-857.

>
>Also, where can I find a standard that discusses the transmission of
>IP datagrams over 802.5?

Beats me ;-)

Colin

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