Talk:Token passing

There is a need to describe the general concept of a token ring, as opposed to any particular implementation such as IEEE 802.5 Token Ring, but this article doesn't do that.

I suggest making Token passing redirect to Token ring, and add a general introduction to the concept to the latter.

-- DavidHopwood 00:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Yup, certainly need to add a general token ring section to whats currently an 802.5-specific article, BUT this is still needed (if it were expanded) to the theory behind token passing systems, and provide links to specific systems - 802.5 of course but also token-buses like ARCNET.--Snori 01:19, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

References

Have now, (finally!), added a couple. Snori (talk) 23:48, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Polling

The 'big deal' (aside from the deterministic thing), with token passing was/is that individual devices could come onto a network and start collaborativly sharing data over it - and that any device could leave at any time without disruption. By contrast, 'polling' implies a master device. Snori (talk) 00:23, 9 July 2017 (t)