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[Cannara]

Sure, multiple tokens allow things to happen better, if the ring has enough
propagation delay, but the effect is simply reduced a bit, not eliminated. 
There's no beating the basic reality of CS:  If no one's talking, send now!
But we all know we need CD: Oops, who whacked my pkt?!

In any case, at the access rates most LANs are run at, there's no sense
waiting for any token.  One of the expensive absurdities of the '90s was the
Token Ring Switch.

Alex

Vadim Antonov wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Cannara wrote:
> 
> > -- the gist is that time to complete a given
> > pkt send starts out above zero in a token system and increases in proportion
> > to the number of connected nodes,
> 
> This is not exactly true, as you may have multiple tokens