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/. |
To add a token ring connection, follow these steps:
Click the Devices tab.
Click the New button on the
toolbar.
Select Token Ring connection from the
Device Type list and click
Forward.
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.
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.
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.
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.
