[11235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Oyler)
Wed Jul 23 12:35:09 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:12:43 -0500
To: Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net>
From: Bob Oyler <oyler@ixks.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <869669241.6334.0@office.demon.net>
Check out www.sdlcomm.com, I believe they have a HSSI card for a PCI bis
At 03:47 PM 7/23/97 +0100, Andrew Bangs wrote:
>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/
>
>
