A token ring network is a network in which all the computers are
connected in a circular pattern. A token,
or a special network packet, travels around the token ring and
allows computers to send information to each other.
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For more information on using token ring under Linux, refer to
the Linux Token Ring Project website
available at https://www.linuxtr.net/.
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To add a token ring connection, follow these steps:
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Click the Devices tab.
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Click the New button on the
toolbar.
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Select Token Ring connection from the
Device Type list and click Forward.
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If you have already added the token ring card to the hardware
list, select it from the Tokenring card
list. Otherwise, select Other Tokenring
Card to add the hardware device.
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If you selected Other Tokenring Card,
the Select Token Ring Adapter window as
shown in Figure
18-10 appears. Select the manufacturer and model of the
adapter. Select the device name. If this is the system's first
token ring card, select tr0; if this is the
second token ring card, select tr1 (and so
on). The Network Administration Tool
also allows the user to configure the resources for the adapter.
Click Forward to continue.
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On the Configure Network Settings page,
choose between DHCP and static IP address. You may specify a
hostname for the device. If the device receives a dynamic IP
address each time the network is started, do not specify a
hostname. Click Forward to continue.
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Click Apply on the Create Tokenring Device page.
After configuring the token ring device, it appears in the
device list as shown in Figure
18-11.
Be sure to select => to save the changes.
After adding the device, you can edit its configuration by
selecting the device from the device list and clicking Edit. For example, you can configure whether the
device is started at boot time.
When the device is added, it is not activated immediately, as
seen by its Inactive status. To activate
the device, select it from the device list, and click the Activate button. If the system is configured to
activate the device when the computer starts (the default), this
step does not have to be performed again.
