[11140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Jul 22 10:03:22 1997
To: Chris Wilson <cbw@atlantic.net>
cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, nanog@merit.edu, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:35 EDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:25:04 +0100
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Wilson <cbw@atlantic.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure how the person who was discussing it on the other list was
> doing it.. maybe they were talking about ISA ;) In any case, I'd be pretty
> fearful of running OC-level bandwidth over a PC... "Gee, the corporate
> network went down because the router's hard drive crashed!"
Uhh, then you'd have backups, I know of several largish networks using PC's
as routers, I personally have put in a PC router topology and never had a
single hard disk failure, the drives are not very active, only really
at boot time, and another point is that whilst doing this I never had
the problems that a lot of ISP's with Cisco routers where having...
Neil.
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