In a message dated 07-31-96 GEORGE FLIGER wrote to JIM PALMER:
JP> If memory serves it was 20 km, for the ring with a 10 km limit
JP> between nodes using single-mode fiber and 2 km using multi-mode
JP> fiber, but if you have a node 4 miles from your main site as I
JP> do the ring traverses 8 miles getting there and back.
GF> You're right but 20km is still 12 miles (ring) plus 6 miles between
GF> nodes using single mode.  That's still 18 miles, close to my estimate. :)
No, the 6 miles out to a node counts TWICE as part of the ring (out and back) 
rather than being in addition to the ring.
If a station does not see the token again in the time it would take it ot 
traverse a 20 km ring it will try to generate a new token. (very bad)
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