[11232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bangs)
Wed Jul 23 11:00:36 1997
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:47:21 +0100 (BST)
From: Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707221338.JAA09348@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Jul 22, 97 09:38:38 am
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> As for the other implication, although I personally don't run or
> intend to run networks using normal unix boxes as routers (and BTW,
> PCI bus covers Power-PC hardware, Alphas and soon Suns, too!), I know of
> organizations like Demon in the U.K. that run almost exclusively this
> way and seem to like it a lot.
>
UK and Netherlands :-)
They seem to work well as routers with ethernet, fast ethernet and
fddi, and we make quite a bit of use of the ZNYX multi-port ethernet
cards where we need higher port density.
We ended up buying a non-PC router when we wanted a HSSI connection
somewhere. Has anyone found a nice HSSI-PCI card that has support
in any of the BSD-a-likes ?
Regards,
Andrew
--
Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd
andrewb@demon.net http://www.demon.net/ http://www.demon.nl/
