Comment by blakesterz
3 days ago
The "WAS" in that title just made me feel really old. I remember learning about this in college and it being a thing that I would need to work with and understand how it works why it's different than ethernet. And now it's just a big "WAS".
I remember learning about TokenRing in high school circa 2005 for the CompTIA+ certificate.
Never ever seen it in my life though. It was a big "WAS" even then.
The i386-i486 machines we had in middle school were on the Ethernet bus (I remember the BNC cable going along the classroom, with T-joints to the network cards).
IIRC Token Ring wasn't a thing in practice for 100Mbit speeds and beyond, and went the way of the dodo faster than DOS did.
It'll still come in useful, conceptually, if you work with 10base-T1S (multi-drop automotive Ethernet) -- a 2019 standard -- which uses a virtual token ring to implement collision avoidance.
I completed a short computer networking course just earlier this year, and token ring was mentioned in almost as much detail as ethernet. (Frankly, we weren't given a great deal of detail on either: it was very much an introductory course.)
It sounds like you should complain about the crappy course that you paid for (with your tax dollars if nothing else).
Ex Novel Network MCNE, came here to say the same thing.
Sometime I wonder if any of the old protocols have new merit because of some other advance.
When I first took the CCNA test it still has Frame Relay questions.